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Acting #1123 · From Chad

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Perfect conditions don't exist, only these do.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chad #1123 to upgrade your mental game today by telling
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yourself a better story. Because the most important story
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you hear is the story you tell yourself.
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This message is dedicated to Jerry Mills.
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Here's the upgrade you may be waiting for.
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Better conditions, but upgraded thinking knows the only
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conditions that will ever exist are present conditions.
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Here's the story. Christopher Nolan is the
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director of Inception, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer.
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He shoots his movies in the real world.
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Real locations, real oceans, real weather.
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Which means the weather is constantly against him.
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Rain on the day of the big scene.
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Fog when he needs sun. Wind when he needs quiet.
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His answer? He shoots anyway, Nolan says,
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Quote, I'm always shooting no matter what the weather is.
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Just keep going, letting everybody in the crew and cast
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know that we're really serious about doing that, no matter what
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the conditions are in quote, Christopher Nolan shoots no
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matter what the weather does. In the book The Nolan
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Variations, it tells how he refuses to let his crew even
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look out the window to decide if they'll work.
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Hear that line again. His crew doesn't even look out
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the window. The weather has no vote on
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whether though they work. Hundreds of people show up
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knowing the day is happening, rain or shine, because their
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leader decided conditions don't get to decide.
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John D Rockefeller saw the opposite kind of person and
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warned his son about him. Rockefeller wrote to him about
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the passive man who, quote, wants to wait until all the
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conditions are perfect before taking action.
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In quote, his verdict was brutal.
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If you wait until all conditions are perfect, the opportunity
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will be given to others. And he told his son that words
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like tomorrow, next week and future all carry the same secret
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meaning never done. Waiting for perfect conditions
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is not patience, it's a costume that procrastination wears.
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You might remember Mr. d'amato from message 881, the 89 year
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old who walked five miles every single day.
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Mr. d'amato went to his doctor every year on his birthday.
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The doctor warmly greeted him and then he did his check up and
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he asked how old are you this year?
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Mr. d'amato proudly said 89 years old.
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The doctor said, wow, that's great, you're in such good
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shape, better than last year. What's your secret?
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Mr. D'amato? Simply stated, I walk 5 miles
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every day. Every day?
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The doctor asked. Yes, every day, Mr. d'amato
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shared. That's great, well done.
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Well, what do you do when it rains?
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The doctor asked. Mr. d'amato looked at him with a
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bit of confusion. I put on a raincoat.
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The better story to tell yourself is I use the conditions
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I've been given. The walk was never up for a boat
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for Mr. d'amato. Neither is your work.
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Don't give the weather a vote. Don't give how you slept a vote.
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Don't give your feelings a vote. Don't give the economy a vote.
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All sorts of variables will try to tell you why the conditions
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aren't right. I can tell you the conditions
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won't be right. They never are.
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The conditions will not be perfect today.
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There's no such thing as perfect conditions.
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They will be present. You have the present, that's all
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you ever have and that's all you need.
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Tell me a story of something you started in less than perfect
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conditions to from chad.smith@gmail.com.
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Send someone a text right now and ask them, are you waiting
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for perfect conditions? You can get a free copy of my
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book, The Most Powerful Story in the World by going to from
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chad.gumroad.com. The transcript of this message
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and hundreds of others are always available at
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www.fromchad.com.