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Tricking #1186 · From Chad

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There's a double agent working against you right now.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chad #1186 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 Owen Fitzpatrick, whose new book
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planted the seed for today's story.
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Here's the upgrade. You tell yourself that you have
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your best interests in mind, but upgraded thinking understands
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you are a double crosser. Here's the story.
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The most famous double agent of the 20th century never set foot
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on a single battlefield. His name was Juan Pujol Garcia.
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The British called him Garbo. The Germans called him Alaric.
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Pujol wanted to fight the Nazis. British intelligence turned him
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down, so he walked into the German embassy in Madrid and
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talked his way into becoming one of their spies in Britain.
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Except he'd never been to Britain.
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He ran the whole operation from a desk in Lisbon, using tourist
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maps and newspaper clippings to invent a network of British
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agents who didn't exist. 2727 of them, eventually complete with
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names, families, arguments, expense reports.
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He even reported one of them dying and the Germans mourned
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him. When British intelligence
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finally caught on, they didn't arrest him, they hired him.
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And on the eve of D-Day, Garbo went to work on the German high
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command. Night after night he fed Berlin
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a story. Normandy is the decoy.
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The real invasion is still coming at Calais.
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Hold your divisions there, They believed him in German tank
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divisions sat parked at Calais for weeks after the Normandy
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landing had already begun, waiting for an invasion that was
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never coming, because the story in their heads was more
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convincing than the war in front of them.
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Germany gave Pejol the Iron Cross.
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Britain gave him the MBE, Member of the Order of the British
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Empire, an honor awarded by the King for outstanding
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achievement. He fooled both sides so
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completely that when he died in 1988, most people had never
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heard of him. This message was prompted by a
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new book I'm going through by Owen Fitzpatrick titled Inner
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Propaganda. The brain is not a neutral
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observer of reality, but a double agent that manufacturers
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reality for good or I'll. Your brain prioritizes safety
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and stability even over your success.
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It generates stories and predictions that shape what you
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notice, feel, and accept as quote truth.
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This is your inner propagandist who wants to double cross you.
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The same tactics that spies, regimes, and media use for
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external propaganda is at work inside your mind.
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Do you recognize your own internal propaganda?
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This is the premise of these daily messages.
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The most powerful story in the world is the one you tell
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yourself. This is the thesis of
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Fitzpatrick's book Inner Propaganda.
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You've got a Garbo running inside your own head, and he's
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not trying to deceive an enemy. He's managing you.
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He'll invent a whole network of reasons you can't, reasons you
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shouldn't, reasons it's not the right time, all fabricated, all
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convincing, all built for one purpose, to keep his side safe
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and make the other side lose the war.
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The better story to tell yourself is my mind is running a
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campaign on me and I don't have to believe every report it
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files. Here's your next step.
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Download the free PDF of my book, The Most Powerful Story in
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the World, and start training your brain with the Mindset
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acrostic today. You can get it at from
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chad.gumroad.com. Tell me a story about a time you
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caught your own mind lying to you.
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Send it to from chadsmith at gmailcom.
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Send someone a text right now and ask them what's the story
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you've been telling yourself that might not be true.