The Alter Ego Effect

This book is about building a relationship with your potential. Potential means the capability of coming into being. It's real, but not yet actual. The idea of an alter ego is tapping into that potential in order to meet the challenge of a moment or accelerate your growth. This book has some helpful tactics about how to do this. It sits alongside the previous book I read “Chatter” around creating “psychological distance” to “author” your sense of self.

I enjoyed the book and learned a lot about the alter ego effect, although I didn't like how the author is constantly talking about how experienced he is in the field of peak performance. And all the great athletes he coached, I don't think we need this information repeated throughout the book. Also, the fact that he didn't mention the work of psychologists on this subject or how alter ego has been used throughout history by great minds, it makes me feel like the author doesn't know much about what he is talking about. Which bothered me!
Other than that it's a good read.