2-39 (page 64, para. 2, lines 1-6) “We did exactly the same thing with our lives. We took stock honestly. First, we searched out the flaws in our makeup which caused our failure. Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifes- tations.” (A.A., p. 64, para. 2, lines Before we get into the details on how to take this Step, we want to emphasize a few things. First, there is no right or wrong way to conduct a Fourth Step inventory. Various assets and liabilities checklists are in use today. You can use anyone of them. Second, the assets and liabilities checklist described on page 64 precedes the three-column inventory shown on page. Because this “commercial inventory” comes first, we assume the Big Book authors are asking us to utilize this simple checklist before attempting the much more difficult example on the following page.
