How To Reach Your Full Potential (alter ego effect 👯)

do you have something that you just can't overcome no matter how hard you try maybe it's procrastinating quitting everything you start fear of failure or any other limiting beliefs what if I told you that there is a way to instantly bypass these issues to become the person that you've always wanted to be too good to be true well this is the alter ego effect Superman wakes up in the morning he's Superman his alter ego is Clark Kent this is normal Tina is introverted and shy and soft-spoken she also only wears black she spends a lot of her time alone reading thinking going on bike rides and going for long walks she has a very structured lifestyle always wakes up at the same time works for a few hours before lunch eats does some administrative work and then goes for a walk day in day out hardly any change she enjoys the company of few friends but she avoids crowds noisy places and new people like the plague it's a very peaceful life a life that encourages thinking and cultivates creativity but sometimes in order to level up in both your career and your life gotta put yourself out of your comfort zone and that is very hard for normal Tina so often times there's a crowd of people she's either hiding in the corner we're sitting there and saying nothing like this data and Tech live stream she literally sat there and said nothing until somebody directly asked her a question in the comments in the live stream were like why is Tina saying nothing but then there is let's call her alt Tina she does have a name and I will share it later in the video for good reason but yes all Tina wears all whites she is extroverted and bubbly and confident she thrives in the Limelight she's able to give speeches confidently give talks speak up in conferences and she's charismatic she loves meeting new people learning about new things and making new friends she is also the one that you normally see all Tina is my alter ego and that is the alter ego effect so before I dive into exactly what is an alter you go and the really powerful Alter Ego effect first just want to make a quick plug for my newsletter called Boop's keyboard it's about learning it's about AI it's also where I talk more about my life and the things that I create outside of YouTube like lonely octopus which is a program for learning Ai and data skills to work on real freelance projects an altar ego is a Persona that embodies certain traits superpowers beliefs and behaviors that is different than your normal self this is something that so many performers and athletes in particular adopt and use in order to push themselves to Greater Heights for example Beyonce was raised in a pretty Conservative Christian family she started her seeing career and singing beautifully in church choir every Sunday please don't make it hard so you can imagine how difficult it must have been for a girl with that kind of upbringing to be pushed into a limelight of Pop Culture where she's expected to portray someone and to behave in a way that probably directly contradicted with a lot of her own values so in order to cope with these new demands that were thrown on her she created an alter ego called Sasha Furious Sasha Fierce is the fun more Central more aggressive more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when I'm working when I'm on the stage and allegedly even when she would get hurt or injured on stage she wouldn't even feel the pain because Sasha Furious pushed through it once you put on the wig and clothes you walk different kind of this character that I've created over the years another example is the late Kobe Bryant one of the greatest of all times in basketball his alter ego black mamba was inspired by the movie Kill Bill a black mamba is a snake that is agile and Incredibly aggressive hence its handle death incarnate pretty cool he said I hear everything the crowd is saying and at that time the crowd was saying things like chanting stuff like Kobe sucks that got to him so he had to separate himself his personal life from his performance in court and that's when he created his alter ego black mamba he said Kobe was tasked with dealing with his personal challenges and the Black Mamba handled business on court he embodied that aggressiveness that cold-hearted approach of not letting emotions affect him and performed and executed okay so now that we have an understanding of what an alter ego is and the amount of power it can have the natural question that you're probably thinking now is how do I craft this alter ego and benefit from it then so I read this book specifically dedicated to the alter ego it's called the alter ego effect and Todd Herman the author explains there is the Ordinary World that you live in where you may naturally be introverted shy have a lot of self-doubt social anxiety but you yearn to be something more somebody that embodies the traits that you wish you had and that person can take you to the extraordinary world a world where you're not haunted by your past your insecurities deeply in grade limiting beliefs like the fact that people made fun of you when you were little but instead in this extraordinary world you can be someone who doesn't procrastinate is charismatic

is confident can go to meet ups and places where you don't know anybody just walk up and confidently introduce yourself somebody who can be an independent thinker not a people pleaser strong not afraid to take risks what I described as now is obviously specific to me but in any case the first step in creating an alter ego and really benefiting from that powerful Alter Ego effect is to First figure out like what I did the traits that Define you in your Ordinary World then what are the traits that you wish you had things could do that would put you into the extraordinary World let me know in the comments what yours are Todd explains the next step is to breathe life into your altar you go take some time to think about your Inspirations and it could be a variety of things it could be non-fiction characters it can even be animals there's this one businessman who has an alter ego that is a tortoise I don't know how to say that word what am I a tortoise a land turtle there's that story about detores and the hair the tortoise wins because he was slow and steady and calm a lot of athletes in the NFL apparently actually have an alter ego that are like objects Like Trains because they feel inspired by the idea that trains can carry a lot of things that they're sturdy so I thought about it wrote some stuff down and Todd says that when you figure it out we're like relatively figure out you will know so I was like okay trust the process just a process and he was right the inspiration that forms the alter Eagle Tina is a combination of my mom who doesn't want to be exposed on the internet but let me just say that she is one of the strongest and smartest and most charismatic woman I have ever met I've just kind of viewed her as my superhero for a very long time but to my surprise I realized another big inspiration is the Greek goddess Artemis is the goddess of the hunt she's the daughter of Zeus the god of the sky and also the chief Greek deity and lito her mom which who is a Titan she's also the twin of Apollo D God of music dance truth and prophecy Apollo represents the Sun and Artemis represents the moon she's an inspiration to my Alter Ego because I see her as someone who is strong with her bow and arrow that is unmatched by anyone except for Apollo she's kind but also doesn't take people's as the goddess of the Han she also embodies Wilderness and freedom including a freedom of expression that is charismatic and alluring and also clearly feminine she shines like the moon in a dark and offers a way of life and thinking that was very different from what was traditionally accepted at that time I feel very deep sense of connection with Artemis and while doing this exercise I suddenly realized that one of my favorite songs by the band The World is a beautiful place and I am no longer afraid to die the songs hold January 10 2014 and I didn't realize was about Artemis so her Roman name is called Diana and the lines go foreign so yeah that was really cool and I immediately knew that I was starting to craft and breathe life into my Alter Ego now the next step is to name your Alter Ego Malo is easy so the first name that jumped out was Artemis you can name your Ultra you go absolutely anything there's just two key criteria the first one is that you have to feel some sort of emotional connection and emotional resonance to that name into that character and the second one is that the name has the invoke the superpowers that you want your altar you go to have an example that he gave in a book is his business man alonto immigrated to the US when he was 12. he was a Filipino descent and a Pacific Islander so one of the dreams that he always wanted to do was to do public speaking to do this he adopted an alter ego of the big wave and this name is really good because it pulls from his Heritage of being a Pacific Islander wanting to become an island Explorer it was also inspired by The Rock's character in the movie Moana where he was a demigod called Maui who helped Mona in a movie it's actually Maui shapeshifter demigoda the wind in Sea hero of men I interrupted so if you have a name great if you don't have a name don't worry too much about it it's something that will evolve over time alright so final step is to activate your Alter Ego with a totem or an artifact there's a study done by the key lock School of Management where researchers were interested in the effect of a white coat on accuracy and attention when taking a test they found that when participants wore a white coat that was associated with the painter's Smock there was no increase in attention and accuracy but when participants wore that white coat and it was associated with being a doctor then there was an increase in both attention and accuracy this study showcases the importance of clothing and the psychological symbolic meaning that is derived from the article of clothing for example when you imagine a doctor donning that white coat then you think of someone who is probably calm smart collected attentive so no wonder attention and accuracy improved on tests they named this phenomenon in closed cognition which is the effect that close affect human cognition based on both symbolic meaning of it and a psychological experience of wearing it so yes the power of symbols so now you have this altered Eagle right but the key is you have to be able to step into your old her ego when you want to and the way that you can do this is to have some sort of totem or artifact something that has symbolic meaning that is able to activate yourself into your Alter Ego fun fact Martin Luther King didn't actually need glasses he wore glasses as a way for him to become someone that's

more distinguished and dignified they can be something like glasses article clothing jewelry for me it's the color white because first of all I normally wear all black so by wearing all white it's like the opposite of my normal self and my altered ego is in a lot of ways the opposite of how I normally behave it is also inspired by Artemis because you see depictions of her she's usually um like represented by the moon so like silver and white and that is how you craft your alternate ego and really benefit from the alter ego effect so before I end this video I do want to make a final Point often the person that you alter ego is represents someone who you want to be and someone who you probably already are you just haven't been able to express those characteristics for example Beyonce has Sasha Furious for many years but in 2008 she released an album called I Am Sasha furious at that time she retired that Alter Ego Sasha Furious because she didn't need her anymore she was able to exemplify all of the traits that Sasha Fierce had but as herself okay so one more thing I was hanging out with my friend Jeff who came to visit um San Francisco he's normally in New York I had just watched Barbie at that time I was thinking about the alter ego effect we thought it would be fun to dress up as Ken for those of you who watched the movie the end of it it's like he became Kenneth he's gonna get over Barbie and he's actually going to like you know be his own person not just Barbie's boyfriend we suddenly came up with the idea that he would dress as Ken and he would go out and interact with people and do these things as Ken and we filmed it so Jeff is a senior machine learning engineer but he also runs a startup called yourmove. ai and this is an AI power tool that helps you create better dating profiles and have better conversations on dating apps so we decided to create a dating profile for cat we walked around and he was very confident as Ken and he just like took photos of Ken doing different activities anyways this video is not sponsored her and Jeff didn't tell me to talk about this but I thought it was kind of fitting because I was thinking about the alter ego effect at that time so if you're interested in a dating scene I would highly recommend checking out Jeff's app your move. ai I'll link in the description all right everyone so that is the end of today's video and please in the comments tell me about your Ordinary World and who your Alter Ego is what's your alter ego's name I'm so curious to know from you guys and I will see you guys in the next video or live stream