The Thoughtful Therapist is hosted by Jimmy Sclater, a therapist and speaker who has spent his career sitting with people as they wrestle with life’s deepest questions, raw joys, pain, clarity, and confusion. Drawing on doctoral work in how we develop our idea of self and years of listening to human stories, Jimmy explores the questions that shape us: who we are, the choices we make and why, and how we think about life. No quick fixes. No lectures. Just careful thinking, shared honestly. If you're ready to think bigger about what matters, pull up a chair. New episodes when the ideas demand it.
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Why We Laugh: What Comedy Reveals About Being Human
Saison 1 · Épisode 23
vendredi 25 septembre 2026 • Durée 44:23
Why We Laugh: What Comedy Reveals About Being Human
Why do we laugh, and why are some of the things that make us laugh the hardest also the things that make us uncomfortable?
Comedy is more than entertainment. It can connect us, challenge social boundaries, expose hypocrisy, help us face uncomfortable truths, and give us enough distance from pain to see our lives differently.
In this episode of The Thoughtful Therapist, Dr. Jimmy Sclaterexplores the psychology and philosophy of comedy: why humans laugh, why offensive and dark humor exist, how comedians push social boundaries, and why laughter can help us deal with grief, fear, embarrassment, identity, relationships, and even death.
Through Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Dave Chappelle, and George Carlin, we look at four different ways comedy holds up a mirror to human nature.
Robin Williams explored the strange impulses, contradictions, fears, sexuality, and hidden parts of ourselves.
Jim Carrey raises questions about identity, performance, ego, and who we are beneath the roles we play.
Dave Chappelle uses comedy to examine race, culture, power, offense, paradox, and what happens between people.
George Carlin used language, social conventions, institutions, and everyday absurdities to expose how strange the world we've constructed really is.
We also explore benign violation theory, the psychology oflaughter, why delivery and timing matter as much as the words of a joke, why people use dark humor during tragedy, and how comedy can make something painful feel temporarily lighter without pretending the pain isn't real.
Because perhaps comedy doesn't change the reality we're facing.
It holds up the mirror and changes the lighting.
And that raises an even bigger question: Have we confused meaning with seriousness?
Drawing on Alan Watts and the idea of life as play, we consider whether laughter reminds us that tragedy doesn't get exclusive ownership of the human experience. Life can be painful, meaningful, absurd, frightening, and still playful.
And finally, a joke from Robin Williams leaves us with a strange question for another episode:
If you can discover something about your own mind that you didn't know was there... who knew before you did?
That takes us somewhere very interesting in the conversation about consciousness.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Why We Need Comedians 02:54 Why Humans Laugh: The Psychology of Laughter 04:45 The Ancient History and Purpose of Comedy 06:30 Why Comedy Pushes Social Boundaries 08:00 Benign Violation Theory: Why Offensive Jokes Can Be Funny 10:15 How Comedy Forces Humility 12:00 Why Timing, Delivery and Context Matter in Comedy 14:30 Robin Williams: Comedy, Human Nature and Hidden Impulses 18:45 Jim Carrey: Identity, Ego and the Performed Self 21:15 Dave Chappelle: Offense, Paradox and Who Owns a Joke? 24:00 George Carlin: Language, Society and the Comedian as Philosopher 27:00 What Great Comedians Reveal About Being Human 28:00 Kevin Hart and Making Yourself the Joke 28:15 Comedy Holds Up a Mirror 30:15 Why Comedy Makes Us Feel Less Alone 32:00 Dark Humor, Grief and Coping With Tragedy 34:00 Why Comedy Makes Us Face Uncomfortable Truths 35:45 Alan Watts: Are We Taking Life Too Seriously? 37:30 Have We Confused Meaning With Seriousness? 39:30 Is the Purpose of Life to Play? 40:45 Why We Need Comedy 42:45 Robin Williams and a Strange Question About Consciousness 43:30 Closing Thoughts & Synergy Health Group
The Thoughtful Therapist is a space for psychology, philosophy, mental health, consciousness, meaning, relationships, spirituality, and the strange experience of beinghuman.
A place where ideas are welcome, certainty isn't required, and curiosity comes first.
Why do we keep doing things that no longer work for us?
A lot of our behavior makes more sense when we stop asking, “What’swrong with me?” and start asking, “What did this pattern once do for me?”
In this episode, I follow that question through habitformation, childhood learning, avoidance, people pleasing, emotionalsuppression, hypervigilance, addiction research, and several major therapyapproaches. The central idea is simple: many of our patterns were notirrational when they formed. They may have been useful, protective, or evennecessary in the environment where we learned them. The problem is that ourbrains are very good at learning patterns and not always very good at noticingwhen those patterns have outlived the world that created them.
That raises a harder question: if I didn’t consciouslychoose the experiences that shaped me, how responsible am I for the patterns Icarry now?
Psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, behavioraltherapy, CBT, DBT, ACT, person-centered therapy, solution-focused therapy,reality therapy, and existential therapy all approach that question fromdifferent angles. Some look at where the pattern came from. Some ask whatreinforces it. Some focus on awareness, values, relationships, responsibility,or building a different response.
And maybe that’s the point.
The goal may not be to become completely free of patterns.We probably can’t. Patterns are part of how human beings function. Maybe thegoal is to notice which patterns still belong in our current life, which oneswe’ve outgrown, and what we want to practice becoming instead.
If you’ve ever wondered why you avoid, shut down, peopleplease, overreact, stay hypervigilant, repeat unhealthy relationship patterns,or understand exactly why you do something and still keep doing it, thisconversation is for you.
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Is Avoiding Pain Making Us Less Happy?
Saison 1 · Épisode 21
vendredi 11 septembre 2026 • Durée 40:57
Is Avoiding Pain Making Us Less Happy?
What if feeling better isn’t always the same thing as livingbetter?
We spend a lot of energy trying to avoid discomfort. Wedistract ourselves, numb ourselves, stay busy, scroll, work, eat, drink, watch,escape, and sometimes those things are exactly what we need. But what happenswhen avoiding difficult emotions stops being a tool and becomes the goal?
In this episode, I use the image of an emotional pendulum tothink through emotional avoidance, numbness, addiction, grief, resilience,happiness, and joy. If we constantly interrupt the swing toward sadness,disappointment, fear, or grief, do we eventually make it harder to fullyexperience excitement, love, gratitude, and wonder too?
And maybe the bigger question isn’t how to become happier.
Maybe it’s how to build a life that remains joyous even whensadness is present.
Because most of life probably isn’t lived in our greatestmoments or our worst ones. It happens somewhere in the middle, in traffic, atdinner, at work, in conversations, in boredom, in ordinary Tuesdays. Mayberesilience isn’t about eliminating suffering at all. Maybe it changes how muchof that ordinary life suffering is allowed to take from us.
Can joy and grief exist together? Does avoiding pain shrinkour emotional range? Can suffering become meaningful without pretending it wasnecessary? And is a joyous life actually something different from a happy one?
That’s what I’m thinking about this week.
If you have a different way of looking at it, or think I’mcompletely wrong, I’d genuinely love to hear it in the comments.
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Why Does Music Make Us Feel Anything at All?
Saison 1 · Épisode 20
vendredi 4 septembre 2026 • Durée 39:10
Why does music affect our brains and emotions so deeply? Why can a song make us cry, dance, remember someone we love—or feel something we can't quite explain?
In this episode of The Thoughtful Therapist, we explore the psychology, neuroscience, mathematics, and meaning of music. From rhythm and prediction to Pythagorean harmony, Fibonacci patterns, memory, synesthesia, and the strange relationship between sound and emotion, the deeper we go, the stranger music becomes.
Inspired in part by Alex O'Connor's conversation with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy on Within Reason #108, “Do Numbers Exist?”, along with a surprisingly philosophical moment from Futurama and Friedrich Nietzsche's famous observation: “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Did humans invent music—or discover patterns already hiding in sound and mathematics? And even if science can explain how music reaches the brain, can it explain why music means anything to us?
Topics: psychology of music, music and the brain, music and emotion, mathematics of music, rhythm and prediction, music and memory, synesthesia and chromesthesia, Pythagoras, Fibonacci sequence, philosophy of music, Nietzsche, and why humans love music.
The Thoughtful Therapist explores psychology, philosophy, meaning, and the strange experience of being human—one thought at a time.
Mentioned in this episode: Alex O'Connor & Marcus du Sautoy — Within Reason #108, “Do Numbers Exist?” Olivier Messiaen — Quartet for the End of Time Futurama Here Comes the Boom Friedrich Nietzsche
The Thoughtful Therapist explores psychology, philosophy, meaning, and the strange experience of being human—one thought at a time.
Chapter list
00:00 Nietzsche: “Without Music, Life Would Be a Mistake”
00:53 Why Music Becomes Part of Our Lives
Do We Live in the Same Reality?
Saison 1 · Épisode 19
vendredi 28 août 2026 • Durée 24:59
Do We Live in the Same Reality?
What if two people can live through the same event, and genuinely experience two different realities?
We tend to imagine reality as something simple: there is the world as it actually is, and then there is our subjective experience of it.
But the closer you look, the harder that distinction becomes to maintain.
In this episode of The Thoughtful Therapist, I start with something I encountered repeatedly while researching identity: identical twins raised in remarkably similar circumstances can remember and understand their childhoods very differently. From there, the question gets stranger.
Depression can transform the world without physically changing it. Environment can change the body that perceives it. Poverty and privilege can create radically different sets of possibilities within the same physical world. Our brains shape what reaches us. Groups can reinforce realities that even their individual members don't entirely believe. And at the edges of physics, even the act of measurement becomes surprisingly complicated.
None of this means truth doesn't exist—or that everyone's version of reality is equally accurate.
It raises a different question:
What does the world look like from where you're standing?
Because perhaps understanding another person requires more than knowing what happened. Maybe we also need to understand how they got there.
We may share a world.
I'm just not sure we ever share it in quite the same way.
The Thoughtful Therapist Let's take this one thought at a time.
Chapter list
00:00 What Is Reality?
02:40 Identical Twins, Different Childhoods
The Age Where We Think We Know Everything… But Understand Nothing
Saison 1 · Épisode 18
vendredi 21 août 2026 • Durée 59:51
The Age Where We Think We Know Everything… ButUnderstand Nothing
You probably know more than almost anyone who lived athousand years ago.
Or do you?
You have a device in your pocket that can answer almost anyquestion, translate languages, navigate the planet, access thousands of years of human thought, and now, with AI, even explain much of it back to you.
But how much of that do you actually know?
Take away the phone. Take away Google. Take away theinfrastructure built by generations before us.
What’s left?
For my first-ever guest conversation, my friend Joe Gentili,a librarian, archivist, and historian, joins me to wrestle with a strangepossibility:
Humanity may know more than it ever has while each of usunderstands less and less of what makes that knowledge possible.
We talk about libraries as a kind of collective humanmemory, whether people in the past were actually less intelligent than we are,what separates information from knowledge and understanding, what AI changes,and why having an answer available in five seconds might not be the same thing as knowing it.
And somewhere along the way, another question emerged:
For all our technological progress and accumulatedknowledge, have the questions humans are asking actually changed very much atall?
Maybe we're not standing above the people who came beforeus.
Maybe we're standing on their shoulders.
And maybe knowing that is part of becoming a little wiser.
Let’s take it one thought at a time.
Chapter Guide
00:00 — The Age Where We Think We Know EverythingThe Gettysburg tank thought experiment: are we actually smarter, or do we simply have access to more information?
How Should We Seek Truth, Wisdom, and Meaning?
Saison 1 · Épisode 17
vendredi 14 août 2026 • Durée 32:00
How Should We Seek Truth, Wisdom, and Meaning?
Science wants evidence.
Philosophy wants reasons.
Faith asks us to live even when certainty isn't available.
So why do we keep acting like we have to choose between them?
For much of modern life, we've inherited a surprisingly simple story: humanity believed things, then we learned to question them, and eventually science came along and showed us what was actually true.
There's just one problem.
That's not really how human beings got here.
The astronomer studying the stars might also have been a priest. The philosopher asking what makes something true might also have been laying the groundwork for science. And even today, scientists rely on values that can't themselves be established by an experiment—honesty, humility, openness to criticism, and the belief that truth is worth pursuing.
Maybe these aren't three competitors trying to answer the same question.
Maybe they're three different tools.
One helps us understand what we can know.
One forces us to ask how we know it.
And one wrestles with what any of it means for the way we actually live.
Of course, all three can go wrong.
Faith can become dogma. Philosophy can become endless cleverness without wisdom. Science can become authority instead of inquiry.
Maybe the danger begins when any one of them stops asking questions and becomes certain it no longer needs the others.
So this week, I'm not particularly interested in deciding whether science, philosophy, or faith wins.
The Myth of Finding Your Purpose
Saison 1 · Épisode 16
vendredi 7 août 2026 • Durée 25:40
Episode 16: The Myth of Finding Your Purpose
We've all been told that one day we'll discover our purpose, as if it's hidden somewhere out there waiting to be found.
But what if that's the wrong question?
In this episode of The Thoughtful Therapist, Dr. Jimmy Sclater explores why so many of us spend our lives chasing the nextaccomplishment, promotion, degree, or milestone, hoping it will finally answer a much deeper question: Who am I?
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and personalexperience, we explore why reaching our goals often leaves us asking "Now what?" and why purpose may not be something we discover, but somethingwe build through the way we choose to live.
Together we'll explore:
Why fear can temporarily become our purpose
The psychology behind the "Now what?" feelingafter major life milestones
Alan Watts and the treadmill of endless achievement
Viktor Frankl on meaning in suffering
What Aristotle, Epicurus, Nietzsche, and existentialism canteach us about living well
Why our lives naturally organize themselves around somethingWhy purpose may be less about finding the perfectdestination... and more about tending the right fire
It's an invitation to ask better questions.
What is your life already organized around?
The Thoughtful Therapist A place where ideas are welcome, certainty isn't required, and curiosity comes first.
Chapters
00:00 – The Question We Ask Every Child 01:50 – When Fear Becomes Our Purpose 04:46 – The "Now What?" Problem 05:13 – Alan Watts and the Treadmill of Achievement 6:16 – Why Goals Can't Tell Us Who We Are – Existentialism: Freedom and Responsibility – The Military, Identity, and Transition – Viktor Frankl and Meaning in Suffering – Aristotle & Epicurus: Building a Good Life – Nietzsche: Choosing Your Own Values – What Is My Life Already Organized Around? – Why This Podcast Exists – Tending the Campfire – Purpose Is Lived on Tuesday – One Question to Take With You
It's a Celebration!
Saison 1 · Épisode 15
vendredi 31 juillet 2026 • Durée 25:16
Episode 15: It's a Celebration!
When was the last time you celebrated simply because youkept going?
Most of us have no problem celebrating birthdays,graduations, or promotions. But somewhere along the way, we stopped believingthat ordinary effort was worth noticing.
In this episode, Dr. Jimmy Sclater explores why celebratingourselves often feels uncomfortable, the difference between celebration andcomparison, and what children understand about encouragement that many adultsforget.
From throwing ridiculous Flag Day parties in college tocelebrating a toddler's first steps, this conversation asks a simple question:
What if the life we're hoping for is built one ordinaryday at a time?
Together we'll explore:
Maybe the biggest milestones in life aren't built inextraordinary moments.
Maybe they're built in ordinary days that deserve to beremembered.
Why do thoughtful conversations sometimes become arguments in a matter of seconds? Why does hearing one word or phrase suddenly make us stop listening? And why does it feel so satisfying when someone confirms what we already believe?
In this episode of The Thoughtful Therapist, Dr. Jimmy Sclater explores how our minds can shift from curiosity to certainty—and how identity, emotion, and modern technology shape the way we think long before logic enters the conversation.
Together, we'll explore:
Why framing changes the way we judge right and wrong
How our brains naturally divide the world into "us" and "them"
Why social media rewards outrage over nuance
How algorithms, bots, and the internet can amplify division
Why criticizing our own "side" may be one of the hardest—and healthiest—things we can do
How to stay curious without surrendering your convictions
This isn't an episode about telling you what to believe.
It's about protecting your ability to think.
If you've ever wondered why conversations feel more polarized than ever, or why it's becoming harder to change anyone's mind—including your own—this episode is for you.
🎙 The Thoughtful Therapist is a podcast about psychology, philosophy, ethics, and living a meaningful life—one thought at a time.
If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing, leaving a review, and sharing it with someone who values thoughtful conversation.
00:00 Why Do We Need Enemies? 00:36 When Curiosity Becomes Defensiveness 02:29 Would You Still Think You Were Right Without Enemies? 05:56 How Framing Changes What We Believe 09:51 Why Our Brains Create "Us vs. Them" 13:35 How Social Media Rewards Outrage17:51 Why Beliefs Become Harder to Change25:48 Can You Criticize Your Own Side?28:48 Are We Being Manipulated Online?32:47 How to Think Without Creating Enemies35:49 Final Thoughts
Chapters
00:00 Why Your Brain Automates Behavior
01:30 Welcome to The Thoughtful Therapist
03:00 How Babies Learn Automatic Patterns
05:30 Why Driving Becomes Automatic
06:30 The Evolutionary Purpose of habits
07:45 When Helpful Patterns Become Harmful
08:45 Childhood Conflict and Emotional Withdrawal
09:45 Trauma, Hypervigilance & People Pleasing
10:45 Why Avoidance Makes Anxiety Worse
11:15 Aristotle, William James & the Psychology of Habit
13:15 Albert Bandura and Learning From Other People
14:30 Rat Park, Addiction & the Power of Environment
16:15 Stop Asking “What’s Wrong With You?”
17:15 When Behavioral Patterns Become Identity
18:00 Why “People Leave Me” Can become a Self-Fulfilling Belief
19:30 How Therapy Changes Behavioral Patterns
20:45 Psychodynamic Therapy & Attachment Theory
22:00 Behavioral Therapy: What Reinforces the Pattern?
22:45 CBT and the Thought-Emotion-Behavior Loop
23:30 DBT Behavior Chain Analysis
24:45 ACT Therapy, Avoidance & Values
25:45 Person-Centered Therapy and the Conditions for Change
27:15 Solution-Focused Therapy and Finding Exceptions
28:30 Reality Therapy: Is This Behavior Working?
29:15 Responsibility, Agency & Patterns We Didn’t Choose
31:30 Why Insight Alone Doesn’t Create Change
32:15 Repetition, Practice & Rewiring Old Patterns
34:00 Building Better Automatic Habits
36:15 Which Patterns Have You Outgrown?
37:15 How to Become Conscious of Your Patterns
38:15 Choice, Responsibility & What We Practice Becoming
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Chapter list
00:00 Emotional Pain, Happiness & the Pendulum
03:15 Why We Avoid Difficult Emotions
05:00 Emotional Numbing and Losing Our Range
06:00 Opioids, Pain Relief & Emotional Numbness
07:00 When Discomfort Starts Feeling Intolerable
08:30 Emotional Numbness, Neutrality & Melancholy
10:15 Happiness, Meaning & Emotional Openness
12:00 When Feeling Happy Starts to Feel Unsafe
14:15 Addiction: When Pleasure Becomes Relief
16:30 Phones, Work & Everyday Emotional Avoidance
17:00 Why We Crave Drama, Chaos, & Stimulation
18:45 Healthy Coping vs. Avoiding Emotion
20:00 What Does Emotional Health Actually Look Like?
21:30 Crying, Grief & Emotional Processing
23:00 Why We Laugh While We’re Grieving
24:45 Can Suffering Become Meaningful?
27:00 Grief, Love, Vulnerability & Why Life Hurts
28:45 Stop Trying to Control the Emotional Pendulum
29:00 Why You Can’t Be Happy All the Time
30:00 A Happy Life vs. A Joyous Life
30:30 The 3% Rule: Our Best and Worst Moments
31:45 Resilience and Recovering From Hard Times
33:00 Forgiveness, Love, Sacrifice & Meaning
34:15 Why Ordinary Days Matter Most
35:00 Can Joy and Sadness Exist Together?
38:15 What Emotional Resilience Really Means
39:15 The 94% of Life We Usually Overlook
40:30 The Pendulum of Joy and Suffering
02:29 Why Does Music Affect Our Emotions?
02:57 Futurama, SoundWaves & the Brain
05:27 How Music Changes Emotion in Movies
07:12 The Mathematics of Music & Harmony
10:49 Rhythm, Prediction & Why We Dance
14:24 Groove, Syncopation & the Brain
16:56 Prenatal Sound & “The Music of Mom”
18:48 Bass, Vibration, Memory & Familiarity
21:20 How Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing People Experience Music
22:11 Chromesthesia: When Sound Becomes Color
25:13 Why Music Creates Tension & Resolution
28:46 Music, Memory & Songs as Time Machines
32:43 Where Does Musical Meaning Come From?
34:16 Birdsong, Whale Song & Music Beyond Humans
36:20 Nietzsche, Music & the Meaning We Create
38:03 Why Music Still Feels Mysterious
04:45 When Depression Changes Your Reality
06:45 What Denver Has to Do With Reality
08:20 What If the World Really Is Different?
09:50 When the Brain Changes
11:40 Phenomenology: There Is No View From Nowhere
14:00 Hallucinogens & Altered Reality
14:35 When Groups Build Their Own Reality
16:35 Physics Makes Reality Even Weirder
19:10 So... Do We Share a Reality?
20:45 What Does the World Look Like From Where You're Standing?
23:10 Do We Share a Reality? Maybe.
05:00 — What Does It Mean to Actually Know Something? Information versus knowledge, critical thinking, expertise, and knowing where to look.
07:15 — AI, Information, and the Problem of Context What happens when AI can give us answers without the experience, context, and understanding behind them?
16:11 — What Is a Library Actually For? Libraries as accessible information, collective memory, cultural institutions, and a record of what societies consider worth preserving.
24:00 — Were People in the Past Really Less Intelligent? Ancient knowledge, forgotten skills, survival, technology, and whether progress has fooled us into equating modernity with intelligence.
39:24 — Standing on the Backs of Giants Human progress as accumulated knowledge—and the millions of small contributions that make our modern understanding possible.
47:43 — Do We Know More but Understand Less? Surface knowledge, smartphones, instant answers, and what happens when we no longer have to sit with a question.
55:38 — What's One Thing You Actually Know? Certainty, truth, humility, and the realization that despite thousands of years of progress, humanity may still be asking the same fundamental questions.
I'm wondering whether we've been asking the wrong question.
Maybe we were never meant to choose.
Maybe we need all three.
Let's take it one thought at a time.
— Dr. Jimmy Sclater The Thoughtful Therapist
A place where ideas are welcome, certainty isn't required, and curiosity comes first.
Special thanks to Synergy Health Group for their continued support of The Thoughtful Therapist.
Chapters
00:00 — How Should We Seek Truth, Wisdom, and Meaning? The idea that science, philosophy, and faith may not actually be competing teams.
02:28 — Faith: Humanity's Search for Meaning Faith as something broader than organized religion: trust, commitment, meaning, belonging, and orientation toward something larger than ourselves.
06:13 — 100 People: How Civilization Begins A thought experiment about survival, cooperation, shared meaning, philosophy, and eventually science.
11:52 — When Faith and Science Grew Together The Maya, astronomy, the Gregorian calendar, Christopher Clavius, and the complicated historical relationship between these traditions.
15:11 — Philosophy: Asking Questions About Our Questions How philosophy examines knowledge, ethics, reality, assumptions, and even the process of inquiry itself.
18:37 — Aristotle, the Eye, and “What Is It For?” Why we still naturally describe things by their purpose or function, and what that reveals about the relationship between philosophy and science.
22:34 — Science and the Virtue of Truth Evidence, criticism, changing theories, humility, and the extraordinary power of the scientific method.
28:59 — When Faith, Philosophy, and Science BecomeDogmatic How all three traditions can stop searching and start protecting their own territory.
29:51 — Maybe We Need All Three Knowledge, wisdom, and meaning as different parts of the same human search, and why civilization may be one long conversation carried forward one thought at a time.
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22:54 Just Keep Showing Up
If this conversation made you stop and think, considersubscribing and joining us next week.
And if there's someone in your life who's quietly showing upevery day, maybe send this episode to them.
Sometimes the smallest acknowledgment can make the biggestdifference.
Until next time...
Take it one thought at a time.
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