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Amazing #1170 · From Chad

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You have 200 servants working for you right now, and you
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probably haven't thanked one of them today.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chad #1170 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 Daniel Eck, who has given me one
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of my favorite servants. 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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chat.gumroad.com. The transcript of this message
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and hundreds of others are always available at
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www.fromchat.com. Here's the upgrade.
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You may feel like you can do everything yourself, but
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upgraded thinking knows you're the most served human being who
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has ever lived. Here's the story.
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Earl Nightingale used to point to a study, then around 1960,
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that tried to put a number on it.
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How many human servants would it take to replicate what the
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average appliances and an average home were already doing?
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The answer was 202 hundred people cooking, cleaning,
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hauling water, tending fires, running messages so that one
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middle class family could live like it was nothing.
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That was 1960. You have the equivalent of
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hundreds of tireless servants working for you right now, and
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it's only grown since. A smartphone alone multiplies
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that count many times over. A librarian, a map maker, a
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translator, a Courier, a calculator, and a newsroom all
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standing at attention all day, never once asking for a day off.
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The machines just serve. The only barrier to gratitude is
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whether we notice. Will Durant had the poetry
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version of this. He said inventions are organs
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we've grown outside our own bodies.
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Gigantic arms that build in a month what once took a million
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men a lifetime. Great eyes that search out stars
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no human eye could find. Quiet voices that cross oceans.
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He said we were chained to the Earth like Prometheus, and we
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finally got loose. Here's what I want you to sit
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with. In 1882, JP Morgan strung
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electric lights through his house and threw a party just to
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show them off 400 guests came to marvel at it.
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Two of them went home and ordered the same system for
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themselves because it seemed like a miracle only a
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billionaire could afford. That miracle is a light switch
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your kid flips without looking. Steve Jobs, a billionaire many
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times over, had no live in servants and no security guards.
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He left his back door unlocked. Bill Gates couldn't believe it.
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Jobs didn't need a staff because he had a house full of machines
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doing what a staff used to do, and none of them had to be paid,
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fed or thanked to keep showing up tomorrow.
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That's the whole point. The machine can't be flattered
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and it can't be wounded. It just shows up and does the
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work, no thanks required. And that's why we often overlook
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it. The better story to tell
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yourself is I'm the most served person alive and today I'm going
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to notice it. Tell me a story of something
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you're taking for granted to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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Send someone a text and ask what is a modern convenience you're
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thankful for today.