The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life

Both of these represent the typical experience someone feels, depending on how they’re approaching and experiencing a Field of Play.

The Core Self is where possibility exists. It’s this deep inner core where a creative force resides waiting to be activated by the power of intention. Because human beings have this incredible ability to imagine, create, and decide, it gives you the opportunity to change something in an instant. The Core Self is where your deep desires, aspirations

“why you do something” or “why you care,” but you can’t find the words, you’re probably being driven by an intrinsic motivator. They’re the intangibles. Something you can’t touch, hold, or show someone else. Human beings have a collection of intrinsic motivators that, when you tap into them, drive a more meaningful level of action. Things like: Gro

This idea of space and distance between our identities is something that researchers are starting to validate.

It gets to the heart of why talented, capable people underperform. They don’t realize it, but they’re being unintentional about what “who” is showing up on their Field of Play and into those Moments of Impact.

This Trapped Self is the part of you that doesn’t feel like it’s showing up in life like you want, avoiding certain things or feeling pressured to act in a certain

In the Ordinary World you can find a Trapped Self, and in the Extraordinary World you can find a Heroic Self.

Researchers have found that “self-suppressive activation” and “self-expansive activation” are keys to opening the vault to more confidence and courage.9 10 In the research and work we’ve done, we refer to it as the Ow Mindset and the Wow Mindset. Suppressing the Ow Mindset means your intentions and actions are motivated by negative emotions; you’re

Researchers found that the kids who worked the longest were the ones who impersonated Batman or Dora, followed by children who just pretended, and, finally, the kids who remained in the first-person perspective.7 The kids impersonating Batman or Dora were more flexible thinkers, they tried the most keys, and they were calmer. One four-year-old even