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Climbing #1188 · From Chad

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  Fisherman never put a lid on the crab bucket.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chadmore 1188 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 the remarkable Rob Olson.
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  Here's the upgrade. You think it means something's
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  wrong with you and people get crabby the moment you start
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  changing. But upgraded thinking knows it
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  just means you started climbing. Here's the story.
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  Drop 1 crab in a bucket, and it climbs right out.
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  A single crab, given a wall in a little patience, finds the rim.
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  But a bucket full of crabs will never escape.
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  That's why fishermen never bother with a lid.
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  Not because crabs can't climb, but the group won't let one of
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  their own get away. The moment one gets close to the
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  top, the others reach up with their claws and drag it back
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  down. Not to help it, not for any
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  reason at all, just because that's what's in the bucket and
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  it doesn't like watching one of its own get out.
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  Conformity is the biggest thief of an extraordinary life.
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  Raulo May was always quoted by Earl Nightingale, Quote.
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  The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's
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  conformity. In quote, most people don't
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  choose a life, they drift into one doing roughly what the
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  person next to them is doing, for no better reason than
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  maintaining everyone in the same bucket.
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  And if someone seems to have a mind of their own, those around
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  are sure to drag him or her back down.
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  What keeps most people in the bucket is 2 questions on a loop.
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  What will other people think and what will other people say?
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  Can ioffer you a third question to ask yourself?
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  Why should I care? The pole isn't proof you're
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  doing something wrong, it's usually proof you're doing
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  something worth pulling on. Keep climbing anyway.
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  The better story to tell yourself is the claws on my
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  ankle are a signal I'm doing something right.
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  Lao SU wrote. Care about what other people
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  think and you will always be their prisoner.
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  In quote. Maintain a mind of your own.
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  Ignore the claws. Keep climbing.
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  Tell me a story about a bucket you climbed out of to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and tell
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  them the people pulling on you are proof you're close to the
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  rim. Keep climbing.
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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.