Todd Herman

You have stages you’re already performing on and stages you might like to perform on, and my question is: Would you like to show up there as the heroic version of yourself?

That’s all we’re doing with the Alter Ego—we’re consciously and intentionally choosing to bring the best version of our ‘selves’ forward for the different roles we play in life.

This isn’t being fake. Pretending to know about particle physics when you don’t is fake. Using an Alter Ego to entertain a group of physics students when you have been a boring physics professor until now is just using the right tools for the job.

Your Alter Ego is really about defining how you want to show up, defining the Superpowers, and borrowing the characteristics of an existing person, character, superhero, animal, or whatever to help Activate your Heroic Self

When you use the creative force from your Core Self and intentionally decide who will show up, the things and behaviors you’ve ‘always had’ can shift instantly. ... Most of us don’t realize that we’re telling ourselves a lethal story that we believe is gospel when, in fact, we can silence it and create and live a new story.

Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, ‘To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in that suffering.’

My goal as a performance coach is to help people get to the place where they consistently perform at their highest level, wherever that may be for someone. To do that, performance has to become a habit. It has to happen just as naturally as you breathe.

Just as many streets and avenues lead to the center of town, there are many ways to help you connect to this concept, use it, and lead your Heroic Self onto the Field of Play.