Character Invention: How to Turn on Your Character to Perform at Your Best

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In each situation, there are different versions of you that must turn on in order to perform at your best. For some, it can be very difficult to navigate all of the context switching within the confines of your persona. To bring this to life, here are three characters that I try to turn on during a typical day. The morning monster is built of cold, emotionless discipline. He doesn't worry about how he feels on any given day as he relies on discipline,. Not motivation to take action. This character is built to hit the cold plunge and get in my weight training and cardio.

We all struggle with some degree of self-doubt and fear of failure. It's particularly common among ambitious high-achievers, who, by definition, are constantly putting themselves in situations that are on the edge of their current competency level.

Character Invention: Create a character in your mind who can show up in the way you want to and teach yourself to "flip the switch" to become this character when necessary.

Character Invention in three steps: (1) Identify the situations where you'd like to show up as the best version of yourself, (2) Envision the character you would like to embody in each situation, and (3) Get yourself some reps by turning on this character in those situations.