
This lecture answers the question: "What is an alter-ego"?
Many celebrities have created alter-egos in order to appear to be "larger than life" to their audience.
Alter-egos aren't just for comic book characters and celebrities. They're also for regular people who have ambitious goals they want to achieve.
In this lecture I'll share with you how this course is organized.
In this section we'll delve into the six benefits you'll gain by creating an alter-ego.
While your ego tries to keep you locked inside your comfort zone, your alter-ego will break you out.
Your alter-ego can help you tap into your hidden strengths.
Allow your alter-ego to turn you into the type of person you need to be in order to achieve your goals.
Most of the time you're your everyday self: You go to work, do the laundry, and cook dinner. But then, you set aside some time each day to channel your genius through your alter.ego.
Creating self-distance, or taking a ,mental step back from yourself, can help you to deal more effectively with the past, the present, and the future.
We can all use more fun in our lives. Having an alter-ego can help with that.
Here are the seven steps you'll be using to create your alter-ego.
The first step in creating an alter-ego is to decide the reason why you want to create an alter-ego. What important goal or objective do you need help with? Use the 25-part test in this lecture to determine your alter-ego's purpose.
In this lecture you're going to give your alter-ego a personality.
In this lecture you're going to give your alter-ego an origin story. That is, you're going to create some background that explains where they came from. This is helpful in order to start fleshing out your alter.ego.
In this lecture you'll discover why it's vital that you give your alter-ego a good name.
Craft an image for your alter-ego that will allow you to fully inhabit the persona you've created.
Choose a trigger that will allow you to shift from the everyday you, into your alter-ego's identity.
Now that you have an alter-ego, get out there and start acting with your alter-ego's help to achieve what you want.
Here are six more points for your to keep in mind as you step out into the world as your alter-ego.
Congratulations! You've successfully completed this course.
In this course you'll discover how to create a powerful alter-ego to help you achieve your goals--even those which are currently far off from your comfort zone. It includes the following "Create Your Alter-Ego Worksheets":