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Doing #1201 · From Chad

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  Do you know the four killer words?
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #12101 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 Peter Freights, a real doer.
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  Here's the upgrade. You may think you need to know
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  more, but upgraded thinking knows you need to do more.
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  Here's the story. Early one evening, a young
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  salesman walked up to a middle-aged farmer relaxing on
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  his front porch. The salesman was enthusiastic.
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  He had a book to sell. It was called Everything You
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  Need to Know About Farming. The farmer took the book and
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  flipped through it. Then he looked up and said,
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  young man, I know everything that's in this book.
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  I could probably write a book just like it.
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  You see, my problem isn't knowing it.
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  My problem is doing it. Salesman thought he was selling
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  to a man with an ignorance problem.
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  He wasn't. Surgeon and author Atul Gawande
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  says there are two kinds of failure.
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  One is ignorance, we don't know what to do.
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  The other is ineptitude. We know what to do, but we don't
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  do it. Most of us aren't suffering from
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  ignorance, we're suffering from ineptitude.
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  Michael Beckwith calls it spiritual indigestion.
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  We read all the books, listen to all the podcast, take all the
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  courses, and if you're not living what you claim to
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  believe, you just get bloated with ideas.
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  I call it knowing a lot and doing a little.
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  You've probably heard of the Dead Sea.
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  It's called the Dead Sea because no fish live in it.
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  Ocean water is about 3.5% salt, The Dead Sea is 34%.
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  I swam in it. The salt content is so high you
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  just Bob on the surface. Water flows in, but no river
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  flows out. The water leaves only by
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  evaporation, and evaporation leaves the salt behind.
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  Over time, the lake becomes too salty for fish to live in.
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  Knowledge that only flows in works the same way.
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  It piles up. It doesn't feed anything.
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  Knowledge without an outlet has no life.
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  You can boil it down to a formula K -.
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  A = 0. Knowledge minus action equals
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  nothing. But there's a companion formula,
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  K + A equals E Knowledge plus action equals everything.
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  You've heard these formulas from me before.
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  On message 740. A kid in New Hampshire got Jim
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  Ryan's workouts in the mail and spent the summer reading them.
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  On message 772, three frogs sat on a log and one decided to
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  jump. Same lesson each time.
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  Now the four killer words I already know that.
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  Say those and the learning stops.
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  If you know something and don't use it, it's useless.
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  Now the four life saving words are I already do that.
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  The better story to tell yourself is I do that.
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  K + A equals E Knowledge plus action equals everything.
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  Tell me a story of closing the gap between knowing and doing to
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  from chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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  where are you falling into the no do gap?
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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.