Todd Herman is New York Times Best-Selling author, entrepreneur, business coach, and mentor who has spent more than 20 years as a performance adviser to athletes and business executives at the highest level. Host Nick Nanton and Todd discuss his recovery from COVID-19, the principles behind Todd’s latest book — “The Alter Ego Effect,” and the importance of having a mentor. Nick and Todd also talk about the four layers of the core self, creating a secondary ego to reach new levels of performance as well as protecting yourself from criticism, and the language of peak-performance. 

Timestamps:

• 2:27: Overcoming COVID-19
• 6:65: Why Todd wrote “The Alter Ego Effect”
• 11:47: The truest sense of your alter ego
• 15:52: Examples of using the alter ego in real life — and with athletes 
• 23:38: Todd played football and was a nationally ranked badminton player
• 27:07: Who is the biggest hero in a particular setting? 
• 31:46: Turning off the alter ego 
• 35:46: James Altucher
• 38:18: Four layers of the core self
• 43:25: Hidden forces of the enemy

Resources:

• Todd on Twitter
• 90 Day Year
• Herman Performance Systems
• Harvey Dorfman: “Coaching the Mental Game"

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