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But we're starting off page 72 and the title of the chapter is into action, not into

thinking into action because everything we've done up until now has been other than,

in other words, steps one and two were conclusions of the mind.

We read the doctor's opinion and the first four chapters and we came to certain conclusions

steps one and two.

So once we've done that in the third step, we make a decision to do something.

So again, that's thinking so it's conclusion, conclusion, thinking and step four is writing.

So this is where we begin to put some of this stuff into action.

We get beyond ourselves and the chapter begins with Bill saying, having made our personal

inventory and all through this book.

This is a 12 step call in print, meaning this is the way to go through the steps.

That's the whole purpose of this book was to go out to places far away from New York

where it was written.

People read it, identify with it, do what these people said they did, get the results

they got and then take it to give it away to somebody else.

But in the beginning we didn't have meetings, we had this.

So Bill wrote this book on the basis of, I'm telling you what we did, you do this work

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