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Training #1191 · From Chad

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The bravest men in New York City were terrified of a podium.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chandamur 1191 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 Gary Pritchard, who I got this
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story from. Here's the upgrade.
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You think life is a talent game, but upgraded thinking knows life
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is a training game. Here's the story.
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Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York City during 9/11, and years
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later he told a story about a mystery that used to puzzle him.
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Every so often, a firefighter would run into a burning
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building and carry out an infant, or a police officer
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would dive into a freezing river and pull someone out alive.
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A few days later, City Hall would honor that firefighter or
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officer with a short press press conference.
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Here's the mystery. Men who ran into fire without
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blinking would show up to that podium shaking.
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Men who dove into freezing water without a second thought
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couldn't get through two sentences without their hands
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trembling. Giuliani said it took him a
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while to figure out why. Then it dawned on him.
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Firefighters are trained to run into burning buildings.
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That's what the drills are for. Police officers are trained to
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dive into rivers. That's what the Academy teaches.
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Nobody had trained either one of them to stand at a microphone
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and talk. They weren't bad speakers.
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They were untrained speakers. And that's a different thing
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entirely. The mayor's take away was you
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can be trained to do anything. Same is true wherever you feel
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behind. You don't have a bad memory,
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even untrained one. You're not a bad writer.
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You're an untrained 1. You're not a bad salesman, a bad
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parent, a bad closer. You just haven't been trained
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yet in that particular area. Muhammad Ali said it best.
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I hated every minute of training.
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But I said don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of
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your life as a champion. Talent is what you're born with.
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Training is what you build and the second one is available to
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anyone willing to ask for help, find a coach, or show up enough
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times that the drill becomes the instinct.
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The better story to tell yourself is I'm not behind, I'm
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just untrained and that's something I can start fixing
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today. Just imagine picking the one
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thing you keep calling bad at and running it through 30 days
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of actual training instead. You can do it.
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Life is not a talent game. It's a training game, and you
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can be trained to do anything. Tell me a story of training
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beating talent to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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Check out messages 777 and 956 for more on this.
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Send someone a text right now and tell them you don't need
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more talent, you need more training.
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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.