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Overloading #1223 · From Chad

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  When in doubt, overload. There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #12123 to upgrade your
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  mental game today by telling yourself a better story.
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  Because the most important story you hear is the story you tell
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  yourself. This message is dedicated to
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  Isabella Rose Smith. Here's the upgrade.
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  You may think saying it once should be enough, but upgraded
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  thinking knows you have to overload the aim to change the
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  story. Here's the story back in message
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  893. I told you about 1 of Admiral
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  William Mcraven's military sayings.
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  When in doubt, overload. When Navy Seals were blowing up
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  underwater obstacles and weren't sure how much explosive to use,
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  they were taught to use more, always put more energy, more
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  focus, more power into the situation than seemed necessary.
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  Toby Lutke is the founder and CEO of Shopify.
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  He says he used to be terrified of public speaking.
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  It's a common fear. Jerry Seinfeld jokes about
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  funerals and choosing between being the person in the casket
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  and the person at the podium. Most people would rather be in
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  the casket. So Toby tried something.
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  For about a week, he spent roughly 10 minutes a day
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  writing. I like public speaking.
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  I love public speaking over and over.
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  A week later, he says he loved it.
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  Toby says it's not a placebo. He says repeating writing
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  changes your brain, and when your brain goes to work matching
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  your behavior to your new identity.
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  He also says it works best when you know what you're doing.
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  You go in on purpose. He doesn't stop there.
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  He writes message in a bottle notes to himself, which are
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  scheduled messages to his future self.
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  After his annual keynote, he writes down what worked and what
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  didn't. So next year he starts ahead.
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  It's spaced repetition on the ideas he wants to keep.
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  He even says society creates rituals because rituals are
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  largely affirmations on repeat. Henry Ford is credited with
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  saying whether you think you can or think you can't, you're
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  right. What are you telling yourself to
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  think? Overloading is the principle
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  these daily messages are built on.
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  It's the principle my book is built on.
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  Repetition is persuasive, and the person you need to persuade
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  the most is you. You don't change a story by
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  mentioning it once. You overload it.
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  When you're trying to design a change in your life, overload
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  the aim. Write it over and over.
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  Read books about it, listen to instruction on it.
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  Record voice memos of yourself telling you what you need to do,
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  and play them back. When charge might clear, the
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  obstacle might the seals. Don't bet on might though,
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  neither should you. If you really want to change,
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  try overloading. The better story to tell
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  yourself is when in doubt, I overload.
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  Tell me a story of something you've overloaded to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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  what's one thing you tell yourself every day if you knew
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  it would stick. You can get a free copy of my
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  book, The Most Powerful Story in the World, by going to
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  fromchad.gumroad.com. The transcript of this message
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  and hundreds of others are always available at
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  www.fromchad.com.