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But we're starting on 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 in 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 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, and then I'll tell you what to do next. So each page is built on the previous

page. So if we've arrived at page 72, it's an assumption that we have

completed the first four steps. We've just finished our fourth step. Now we're moving on from there.

So he said, we've made our personal inventory, step four. What do we do about it? And I've highlighted this next sentence because I find it

really interesting. He says, we've been trying to get a new attitude and a new relationship

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