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Flying #1138 · From Chad

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All it took was 12 seconds off the ground to change the world.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chad, your 1138 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 James Newman.
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You can get a free copy of my book, The Most Powerful Story in
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the World by going to from chad.gumroad.com.
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The transcript of this message and hundreds of others are
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always available at www.from Chad dot com.
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Here's the upgrade. The world may be certain you'll
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fail, but upgraded thinking knows you don't have to fly
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across the Atlantic to prove them wrong.
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You just have to get off the ground.
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Here's the story. In 19 O3, The New York Times ran
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a headline. Flying machines which do not
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fly. The smart money agreed.
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One professor called fly to Myth.
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The professionals had already declared that man wouldn't fly
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for a million years. Those were the headwinds, and
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two brothers from a bicycle shop in Ohio decided to fly straight
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into them. Wilbur and Orville Wright had
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almost nothing on paper. No college degrees, no powerful
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friends, no government money. Their rival, Samuel Langley, had
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the Smithsonian behind him and nearly $70,000.
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The Wrights spent $1500 funded by fixing bicycles.
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Langley's machine crashed into the Potomac River.
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But here's what the Wrights understood that the experts
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didn't. Everyone else was chasing power.
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Bigger engines, more thrust. Wilbur decided the real problem
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wasn't power at all. It was control.
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Anybody can get thrown into the air.
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The trick is staying up there and steering.
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So they did the opposite of everyone else.
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While rivals built machines to be stable, the Wrights built
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one. They could balance in motion the
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way you balance a bicycle. They read every book they could
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get. Then when the accepted science
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failed them, they stopped trusting it and build their own
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wind tunnel. Tested 200 wing shapes, made
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their own data. They chose Kitty Hawk, NC
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because the wind and sand gave them the most tries, not comfort
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feedback. Four years it was crashes,
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storms, mosquitoes and neighbors who called them the two poor
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nuts. Then on December 17th, 19 O 369
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days after the New York Times ran that article claiming man
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wouldn't fly for a million years, Orville adjusted the
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wings and the machine lifted off the sand under its own power for
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12 seconds. 120 feet. That's shorter than the wingspan
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of some planes flying today. It changed the entire century.
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Here's what I want you to take away from those 12 seconds.
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It didn't have to be a transatlantic flight.
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It didn't have to silence every critic at once.
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It just had to be real. It just had to leave the ground.
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The better story to tell yourself is I don't have to
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cross the ocean today. I just have to get off the
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ground. You're carrying something right
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now that the smart money says won't fly.
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You've been telling yourself you need a grand, undeniable victory
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to prove them wrong. You don't.
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You need 12 seconds off the ground.
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Tell me a story of getting off the ground at from
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chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and tell
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them what are you trying to get off the ground.