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Filtering #1199 · From Chad

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We strain the water clear and bright, and then feed our
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thoughts. Whatever's insight, there's a
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story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chademer 1199 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 Doctor Ben Carson.
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Here's the upgrade. You think you're just staying
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informed, but upgraded thinking knows everything you let in
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becomes part of the story you tell yourself.
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Here's the story about one in three American adults run their
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tap water through a filter before they drink it, and that's
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after it's been filtered at the city water plant.
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We have a hydrogenated filter in our kitchen that we run the
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plant treated in filtered water through.
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Everybody worries about what's in the glass and bottle.
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Then we pick up the bone and pour whatever's trending
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straight into our heads. Somebody put it this way, the
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water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash
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we feed our minds. Researchers have pulled together
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dozens of studies on doom scrolling.
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They can't prove the scrolling causes anxiety, but the two keep
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showing up together, and even a few minutes of bad news can sour
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your mood. 1 mother though figured this out long before
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anybody had a smartphone. Around 1961 in Detroit, 1/5
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grader named Ben was known as the class dummy.
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FS were normal AD was a good day.
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He spent his free time in front of the TV.
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His mother Sonia had a third grade education.
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She cleaned houses for a living and she noticed something.
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The family she worked for didn't watch much TV.
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They read. So one day she turned off the
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television and made an announcement.
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From now on, Ben and his brother could watch 3 shows a week and
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each of them would read 2 library books every week and
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hand her a written report on everyone.
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The boys complained, but she didn't budget.
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What they didn't know is that she could barely read those
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reports. She'd look them over and make a
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mark and hand them back. It didn't matter.
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She wasn't grading the reports. She was filtering the inputs.
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Within about a year and a half, Ben went from the bottom of his
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class to the top. That boy grew up to be doctor
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Ben Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at John
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Hopkins at 33 and the surgeon who led the first successful
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separation of twins joined at the back of the head.
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Sonja Carson didn't give her boys more brains.
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She changed what went into them. The better story to tell
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yourself is I filter what I feed my mind.
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You don't have to drink everything that comes out of the
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tap and you don't have to take in everything that comes out of
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the feed. Guard the glass, guard the gate.
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Tell me a story of something you stop letting into your head to
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from chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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what's the first thing you feed your mind in the morning.
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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.