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Todd Herman || The Alter Ego Effect

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Is There a Natural Human Tendency to Rebel Against Such a Single Labelling?

i think we cre alterigos as children to help us cope with being treated as though we're less than in some way. i personally created huge alterigos when i was a kid. And so that dislexia that i had help me face down a world and an industrial educational system that wasn't built to help me succeed. So i used my, creative imagination to help navigate that. You take a look at many of the career paths for people with coety or deslexia, they have higher propensity towards going into things like ontrepinertiiping. Any time you're trying to deceive someone else is really about deceiving yourself. I'm excited, indknow

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