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Sticking #1174 · From Chad

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  Facts fade. Story's a stick.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #1174 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 Chad Smith, a great storyteller.
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  Here's the upgrade. You think the truth lands
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  hardest when you say it straight.
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  But upgraded thinking knows the truth lands hardest when you let
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  someone find it on their own. Here's the story.
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  Stanley Kubrick, the famous Hollywood filmmaker of Spartacus
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  and Doctor Strangelove, was once asked why he never made his
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  movies more obvious. He was comfortable with
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  audiences sitting in confusion for two hours when he could
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  easily show what the scene meant.
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  He said this quote If you really want to communicate something,
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  even if it's just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea,
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  the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly.
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  It only goes in about an inch, but if you can get people to the
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  point where they have to think a moment what it is you're getting
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  AT and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right
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  through the heart. In quote, long before Kubrick
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  ever picked up a camera, a prophet named Nathan understood
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  the same thing. King David had taken another
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  man's wife, and then he had that man killed in battle to cover it
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  up. Nathan had every right to walk
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  into the palace and say it straight.
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  David, you're an adulterer and murderer.
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  Those are the facts, true facts, and they would have gone in
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  about an inch. Instead, Nathan told David a
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  story. A rich man with more sheep than
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  he could count. A poor man with one little lamb,
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  the only thing he owned, raised at his table like a daughter.
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  A traveler shows up at the rich man's house and rather than take
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  it from his own overflowing flock, the rich man takes the
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  poor man's one little lamb and serves it to his guest for
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  dinner. David didn't see himself in that
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  story. He saw injustice.
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  He stood up furious and said the rich man who did that deserves
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  to die. That's when Nathan said 4 words.
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  You are that man. The knife of discovery went
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  through David's heart in a way no accusation ever could.
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  Nathan didn't directly confront David with his guilt.
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  Nathan used a story that made David convict himself.
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  A man who would have gotten defensive against a fact instead
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  broke down in front of a story. That's what a story does, that a
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  fact never will. Facts fade.
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  Facts fall short. A fact asks you to accept
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  something from the outside, but there's something about a story
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  that sticks. A story gets you to arrive at
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  the truth from the inside, and once you've discovered it
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  yourself, you own it. You can't.
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  You can argue with a fact. It's a lot harder to argue with
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  your own discovery. This doesn't just work on other
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  people, it works on you. This is why these daily messages
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  tell a story. I start by saying This is why
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  being blunt doesn't work for you.
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  But a comment from a filmmaker and a story from the Bible
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  paints a picture that a principal alone never can.
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  It's a truism that a picture is worth 1000 words.
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  So the next time you're trying to talk yourself into or out of
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  something true, quit reciting facts at yourself.
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  Find the story that lets you discover it.
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  The better story to tell yourself is I don't need to be
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  told the truth, I need to discover it and then it's mine.
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  Tell me a story of discovering a truth on your own that changed
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  you to from chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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  what's a story that taught you something a fact never could.
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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 fromchad.gumroad.com.
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  The transcript of this message and hundreds of others are
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  always available at www.fromchad.com.