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Dressing #1140 · From Chad

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  Today we will learn how to put on our socks.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #1140 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 Alan and Linda's Wern.
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  Here's the upgrade. You want to skip ahead to the
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  big moment, But upgraded thinking knows the way you do
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  anything is the way you do everything.
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  Here's the story. Kareem Abdul Jabbar arrived at
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  UCLA as a freshman, one of the most gifted players in the
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  country. His first lesson from John
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  Wooden, arguably the greatest coach in the history of college
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  basketball, was not a play or a drill.
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  It was how to put on his socks. Kareem remembers the new players
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  exchanging worried glances. Then Wooden showed them.
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  Pulled the sock tight. Work it around the toe and the
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  heel. Smooth out every wrinkle,
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  because a wrinkle causes a blister, and a blister puts you
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  on the bench, and a player on the bench loses games.
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  To make the point, Wooden quoted Benjamin Franklin.
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  For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
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  For one of a shoe, the horse was lost, and for one of a horse,
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  the rider was lost. Imagine you came to prove you
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  were special, and you're sat down and taught to put on socks.
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  But the sock was never the point.
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  It was a test whether a man would bring his full attention
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  to the invisible work that no one applauds, Nobody cheers a
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  smooth sock. But over a season, 100 neglected
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  details decides a championship. Another player, Bill Walton,
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  later put it. Actually, the first thing you're
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  taught is how to put on your socks.
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  It was so drilled into you, it became the obvious place.
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  Any lesson started Spin. Natter, who backed up Walton and
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  went on to a long pro career, says he still thinks of Coach
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  Wooden every single morning when he puts on his socks 50 years
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  later. It's not the championships that
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  come to mind every day. It's the socks.
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  Because Natter understood what most people never do.
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  You never leave a foundation once you believe the way you do
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  anything is the way you do everything.
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  You can't fake excellence in one room and get sloppy in another.
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  The better story to tell yourself is smooth the sock, tie
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  the lace, win the inch, then win the race.
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  You're always training a standard.
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  The only question is which one? Kevin Kelly and excellent advice
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  for a living, says quote. Habit is far more dependable
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  than inspiration. Make progress by making habits.
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  In quote, this ties back to wooden teaching elite athletes
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  to put on socks correctly sounds absurd until you realize it's
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  about installing automatic standards that prevent avoidable
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  failure. Don't depend on inspiration.
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  Install habits. I mentioned wooden in a similar
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  lesson in message 8:30 that would complement this story
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  well. Now tell me a story of the small
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  things done well to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Since when a text and ask them what is 1 foundational lesson
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  you've never forgotten? You can get a free copy of my
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  and hundreds of others are always available at
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