
Her concern for the feelings of her opponent would trigger the self-sabotage which would change the momentum but the pendulum swung too far causing her to lose momentum. This is what would regularly happen to the tennis player. They found their momentum at the right time and what happened previously didn’t matter. Their record shows that NYG were not the best team during the season, but that doesn’t matter in the playoffs.
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Just ask any New York Giants fan, it’s not uncommon for a pro football team to “limp” into the playoffs (with a 9W-7L record) and “peak” at the right time to win every game including the Super Bowl Her personality would never allow her to humiliate anyone, but sports are about momentum. She did this subconsciously because she felt that if the final score of the game was too lopsided it would humiliate her opponent. But, somewhere during the game her inner feelings of fairness would begin to creep in and she would self-sabotage to allow her opponent a chance to come back. Picture this, she would hit the court and over the course of a couple games and/or sets, she would DOMINATE her opponent.

To this tennis player, fairness was a value that she lived her life by and felt was very important to her. He was telling the story about a premiere female tennis athlete who has never won a championship but was amazing enough to be ranked (which is a BIG deal), so she was GOOD. Tell me that doesn’t sound psychologically interesting. Todd’s company helps athletes amplify their strengths. Todd works with premiere sports athletes to help them understand, identify, and control these secret identity behaviors. I was listening to a Tony Robbin’s podcast where Todd Herman was being interviewed. Here’s a great example of a toxic secret identity. The toxic characters can come from a good place and be well founded, so they don’t seem toxic to us, but they get in our way. Here’s the thing, all of these different personalities within us are powerful, some are necessary and productive, but some are toxic. The artist IS who we truly are and the other stuff amounts to alter-egos created to fit in so we don’t piss off our parents, spouses, bosses, or society in general. You’re Superman (NOT gender specific in this case, ladies). the plane-saving, train-stopping, building-jumping real deal.Įven though Superman was kept secret, and Clark Kent was made public, the alter ego of Clark Kent was created because Superman felt he needed to fit in more to society.Īnother way to put it is that Superman felt the need to hide. Kal-El, AKA Superman IS the original being, the genuine soul. Superman’s birth name is Kal-El and he was born on planet Krypton. I’m about to geek out a little bit, but this is important. Most of you would say Superman because that identity was kept secret, duh. Quick question: With Superman, which identity is the secret identity?

The world also suffers because it never sees or experiences the fully realized version of our artist soul. Often, a secret identity conceals things about ourselves so we feel or, in fact, actually fit better into society but sometimes this behavior hinders us and therefore we suffer. We all create a secret identity for ourselves.Īctually, we all create many secret identities for ourselves.

OR you don’t master the productive pieces of what I’m about to describe and you stay stuck. In my humble opinion, ALL artists do this in the beginning.īut, most of you never get over it and your artist spirit dies on the vine.
