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Shouting #1184 · From Chad

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  When you can't save yourself, all you can do is shout.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #1184 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 Brian Clark, who turned around.
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  Here's the upgrade. You think surviving is something
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  you do alone, but upgraded thinking knows survival often
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  depends on someone else's decision to turn back.
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  Here's the story. September 11th, 2001, Stanley
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  Premnath worked on the 81st floor of the South tower.
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  He was at his desk when he looked up and saw the second
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  plane. It wasn't in the distance, was
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  lined up with his window close enough to see the logo on the
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  fuselage. He had maybe 3 seconds.
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  He dove under his desk and prayed one line.
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  Jesus, please save me. The plane hit the 78th floor.
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  His office came down on top of him.
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  Ceiling tiles, drywall, steel, all of it.
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  He was buried alive in a pocket of space that shouldn't have
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  existed. So he did the only thing left to
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  do. He started shouting. 2 floors
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  above him, a man named Brian Clark was already walking to
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  safety. He was an executive with Euro
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  brokers, moving down one of the only stairwell still passable in
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  that part of the building. He had every reason to keep
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  going. He didn't know.
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  Praying that he had never met him, when Brian heard Stanley's
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  shouts, he turned around anyway and climbed back up into a floor
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  that was on fire and filled with smoke.
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  Listening for a stranger's voice buried somewhere in the
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  wreckage, Stanley encountered a wall that stood intact despite
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  the destruction around him. He could hear Brian's voice on
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  the other side. He instructed Stanley to climb
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  over at promising to catch him on the other side.
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  Stanley tried to jump but missed.
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  Feeling unable to climb over, he suddenly felt a surge of
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  strength and began punching the drywall.
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  Successfully punched a hole through the wall, making it
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  large enough to fit his head through, and once his head was
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  through, Brian grabbed him in a headlock and pulled him through
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  the wall with enough force that both of them went down the
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  stairs together to escape to safety.
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  Less than 1/2 hour later, the South tower came down.
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  Premnath became one of only four people to survive from above
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  where the plane hit. It didn't happen because he was
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  strong enough to dig himself out.
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  It happened because he didn't stop shouting and because a
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  stranger was willing to turn back.
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  If you search Stanley escaped in YouTube, his story is easy to
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  find. After the events of 911, Stanley
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  entered A ministerial program, became an ordained pastor
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  serving in New York. The better story to tell
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  yourself is keep shouting. Someone will hear you tell me a
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  story of someone who turned back for you to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and tell
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  them I'm glad you did not give up on me.
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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.fromchad.com.