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            <title><![CDATA[The Frequency Effect (Ebook & Audio Book Bundle)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:11:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2026-05-25T12:11:57.587Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Y_FcUufu7h_g0aVHMEn-JQ.png" /></figure><h3>THE FREQUENCY EFFECT</h3><h3>How to Align Your Energy, Elevate Your Awareness &amp; Deliberately Draw In What You Desire</h3><h3>eBook + Audiobook Bundle</h3><p><a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/l/tlfbk?layout=profile">The Frequency Effect (Ebook &amp; Audio Book Bundle)</a></p><p>You’ve been asking for the right things.</p><p>You’ve visualized. You’ve affirmed. You’ve written the goals down. You’ve watched the videos, said the mantras, made the vision board.</p><p>And still — something isn’t clicking.</p><p>What if the problem isn’t your effort?</p><p>What if it’s your frequency?</p><p><strong>Here’s what nobody tells you about the Law of Attraction:</strong></p><p>You don’t attract what you <em>want.</em></p><p>You attract what you <em>are.</em></p><p>Your dominant thoughts, your buried beliefs, your emotional baseline — these aren’t just feelings. They are signals. And right now, whether you realize it or not, you are broadcasting one of them constantly.</p><p>The universe doesn’t respond to your wishes. It responds to your frequency.</p><p><em>The Frequency Effect</em> is the guide that finally makes the Law of Attraction make sense — not as a spiritual concept you have to take on faith, but as a practical system you can work, refine, and master.</p><h3>What shifts when you read this:</h3><p>You stop waiting to feel good <em>after</em> your desires arrive — and learn to generate the feeling <em>first</em>, which is the only thing that actually draws them to you.</p><p><a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/l/tlfbk?layout=profile">The Frequency Effect (Ebook &amp; Audio Book Bundle)</a></p><p>You find and dismantle the limiting beliefs running silently in your subconscious — the ones that have been canceling your manifestations before they ever had a chance.</p><p>You learn to raise your vibrational frequency deliberately and consistently — not through toxic positivity, but through specific, repeatable daily practices.</p><p>You understand why desperation repels and detachment attracts — and you finally stop doing the one thing that has been pushing your desires away.</p><p>You discover the missing step that most LOA teachers skip entirely — the one that turns passive wishing into active, accelerated creation.</p><h3>Inside the guide — 8 Frequency Principles:</h3><p><strong>01 — The Law of Attraction, Decoded</strong> Strip away the mysticism. Understand the actual mechanics of how like attracts like — and why most people get it exactly backwards.</p><p><strong>02 — The Vibration Principle</strong> Every thought is a frequency. Every emotion is a signal. Learn to read your own broadcast — and change it on command.</p><p><strong>03 — The Belief Barrier</strong> You will never attract beyond what you believe you deserve. This chapter maps your hidden ceiling and shows you how to raise it.</p><p><strong>04 — Visualization Mastery</strong> There’s a profound difference between daydreaming and deliberate creation. Learn the five-element system that rewires your neural pathways toward your desired reality.</p><p><strong>05 — Emotional Alignment</strong> The feeling is the frequency. Generate it before the evidence arrives — and watch the evidence arrange itself around you.</p><p><strong>06 — Gratitude as a Frequency Amplifier</strong> The fastest shortcut to abundance consciousness that exists. Four daily practices that shift your baseline from lack to overflow.</p><p><strong>07 — Letting Go to Receive</strong> The hardest paradox — and the most important one. Why the grip of desperation repels what you want, and how to release without giving up.</p><p><strong>08 — Taking Inspired Action</strong> LOA without action is fantasy. But there is a specific kind of action that multiplies results exponentially — and it’s not the kind most people are taking.</p><h3>This bundle includes:</h3><p>✦ <strong>The complete eBook</strong> — beautifully formatted with pull quotes, key takeaways, and a specific practice at the end of every principle. Not just something to read — something to <em>use.</em></p><p>✦ <strong>The full audiobook</strong> — the complete guide in pure narration form. Perfect for morning routines, meditation prep, long drives, or anywhere you do your best internal work.</p><p><a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/l/tlfbk?layout=profile">The Frequency Effect (Ebook &amp; Audio Book Bundle)</a></p><h3>Who this is for:</h3><p>The person who has tried LOA and felt like it almost worked — but not quite.</p><p>The person who knows there’s something to this, but needs it explained in a way that actually makes logical sense.</p><p>The person who is tired of attracting the same patterns on repeat and is finally ready to understand <em>why</em> — and change it at the root.</p><p>The person who is ready to stop being a passive observer of their life and become a deliberate creator of it.</p><h3>Who this is NOT for:</h3><p>If you want a book that tells you to just think happy thoughts and wait — this isn’t it.</p><p>If you’re not open to examining the beliefs you’ve carried for years — this isn’t the moment for this.</p><p>If you’re looking for a shortcut that skips the inner work — it doesn’t exist, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something dangerous.</p><h3>What makes this different from every other LOA book you’ve seen:</h3><p>Most Law of Attraction content gives you the <em>what</em> without the <em>why</em> — and the <em>why</em> is everything.</p><p>When you understand <em>why</em> emotion is the mechanism of manifestation, you stop faking positivity and start generating the real thing.</p><p>When you understand <em>why</em> limiting beliefs cancel your desires before they arrive, you stop blaming the universe and start clearing the interference.</p><p>When you understand <em>why</em> letting go is the final act of receiving — not the giving up — you stop white-knuckling your desires and start trusting the process.</p><p>This guide gives you the full picture. The mechanics. The science. The practice. And the path.</p><blockquote>“You are not waiting to be given what you want. You are learning to become what draws it.”</blockquote><h3>The frequency was always yours to choose.</h3><p>Most people spend their entire lives reacting to whatever frequency life hands them — wondering why the same things keep showing up, why the breakthroughs never quite stick, why the law they keep hearing about doesn’t seem to work for them.</p><p>This guide exists for the person who is ready to stop reacting and start transmitting.</p><p>Ready to stop hoping and start aligning.</p><p>Ready to understand — maybe for the first time — that the life they want isn’t out there waiting to be found.</p><p>It’s a frequency. And they already have the ability to tune into it.</p><p><strong>Instant download. Yours forever. Start tonight.</strong></p><p>✦ Complete eBook ✦ Full Audiobook Script ✦ 8 Principles. Real practices. Zero fluff.</p><p><em>The Frequency Effect — How to Align Your Energy and Deliberately Draw In What You Desire.</em></p><p><a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/l/tlfbk?layout=profile">The Frequency Effect (Ebook &amp; Audio Book Bundle)</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=e975d766bff1" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why People Emotionally Shut Down During Arguments (And What You Can Do About It)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:02:29 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2026-05-25T12:02:29.442Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*2ZmW8tCCoRrduOVKbXF4Ow.png" /></figure><p><em>Understanding the nervous system’s “freeze” response — and how to build real connection despite it</em></p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fr606xQJRJns%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts%2Fr606xQJRJns&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fr606xQJRJns%2Fhq2.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"><a href="https://medium.com/media/8129153de05558fe38afbe282ededcd4/href">https://medium.com/media/8129153de05558fe38afbe282ededcd4/href</a></iframe><p>Have you ever been in the middle of a heated conversation and suddenly noticed your partner go completely silent? No response, no eye contact, just a wall of quiet that feels like rejection? Or maybe <em>you’re</em> the one who shuts down — and no matter how hard you try, the words just won’t come?</p><p>This phenomenon is far more common than most people realize, and it has nothing to do with stubbornness, manipulation, or not caring. The silence is not a strategy. It’s survival.</p><h3>The Freeze Response: Your Nervous System in Self-Protection Mode</h3><p>When conflict escalates, the human nervous system doesn’t distinguish between a heated argument and a physical threat. It responds the same way it did for our earliest ancestors facing predators: <strong>fight, flight, or freeze.</strong></p><p>Most people are familiar with fight (lashing out) and flight (walking away), but the <strong>freeze response</strong> is often overlooked. Like a deer caught in headlights, the person experiencing emotional shutdown isn’t choosing to be unresponsive — their nervous system has essentially taken over and hit the emergency brake.</p><p>In that frozen state, the brain’s rational, language-processing centers go offline. Asking someone who has emotionally shut down to “just talk to me” is like asking a car with a blown fuse to start. The mechanism simply isn’t available in that moment.</p><h3>It Often Starts in Childhood</h3><p>For many people, the freeze response in adulthood is directly linked to overwhelming emotional experiences in early life. As children, when conflict, chaos, or emotional intensity became too much to process, silence became the safest available option. If speaking up led to punishment, dismissal, or more escalation, going quiet was adaptive — it <em>worked</em> as protection.</p><p>Over years and decades, that wiring becomes deeply embedded. What began as a survival tool for a helpless child becomes an automatic, involuntary response in adult relationships — triggered long before the conscious mind has a chance to intervene.</p><p>This is why simply “deciding to communicate better” often isn’t enough. The shutdown isn’t a decision. It’s a deeply conditioned pattern rooted in the body’s memory of what felt safe.</p><h3>What This Does to Relationships</h3><p>Emotional shutdown is one of the most common and damaging communication patterns in intimate relationships. Here’s why it creates a destructive cycle:</p><ul><li><strong>Partner A</strong> raises a concern and wants resolution</li><li><strong>Partner B</strong> shuts down (freeze response activates)</li><li><strong>Partner A</strong> interprets silence as indifference or avoidance and escalates</li><li><strong>Partner B</strong> shuts down further</li><li>Both partners leave the conversation feeling unheard, disconnected, and frustrated</li></ul><p>Over time, this pattern erodes trust. The person who shuts down often carries shame around their inability to engage. The partner who needs dialogue starts to feel like they’re constantly talking to a wall. Without understanding what’s actually happening neurologically, both parties tend to blame each other — or themselves.</p><h3>How to Bridge the Gap: A Compassionate Framework</h3><p>The good news is that this pattern <em>can</em> be interrupted. But it requires a fundamentally different approach than most of us were taught. Here’s what actually helps:</p><h3>1. Create a Genuine Safe Space</h3><p>Safety is not just the absence of shouting. For someone prone to emotional shutdown, safety means <em>predictability</em> — knowing that the conversation won’t spiral into attack, criticism, or punishment. This takes time and consistency to build, but it starts with how you approach difficult topics.</p><p>Use calm, non-accusatory language. Choose moments when both people are regulated and not already in a heightened state. Signal with your tone and body language that this is a collaborative conversation, not a confrontation.</p><h3>2. Acknowledge the Internal Storm</h3><p>When someone shuts down, there is often a tremendous amount happening on the inside — flooding emotions, racing thoughts, a sense of overwhelm — that they simply cannot articulate in the moment. Acknowledging this out loud can be profoundly disarming.</p><p>Try phrases like:</p><ul><li><em>“I can see this is a lot right now.”</em></li><li><em>“I’m not trying to pressure you — I just want us to understand each other.”</em></li><li><em>“Take the time you need.”</em></li></ul><p>This communicates something vital: <em>I see you. I’m not the threat.</em> That signal alone can begin to deactivate the freeze response.</p><h3>3. Stop Demanding Immediate Answers</h3><p>One of the most counterproductive things to do when someone has shut down is to push for an immediate response. The harder you push, the deeper into freeze they go. Instead, give the conversation room to breathe.</p><p>Agree on a time to revisit the topic — “Can we come back to this in an hour?” — and honor that agreement. This removes the urgency that fuels the nervous system’s alarm response, while still committing to resolution.</p><h3>4. Make Room for Processing</h3><p>Some people need time, movement, or solitude to process emotions before they can articulate them. This isn’t avoidance — it’s emotional regulation. Journaling, walking, or simply sitting quietly can help someone who shuts down access what they’re actually feeling so they can eventually share it.</p><p>If you’re the one who shuts down, communicating this need explicitly — <em>“I’m not shutting you out, I just need 20 minutes to figure out what I’m feeling”</em> — can prevent your partner from misreading your withdrawal as hostility.</p><h3>The Bigger Picture: Emotional Intelligence Is a Skill</h3><p>Understanding the freeze response is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. Healthy, connected relationships are built on a foundation of emotional literacy — the ability to recognize, name, and navigate your own emotional landscape, and to hold space for your partner’s.</p><p>This is not something most of us were formally taught. But it can be learned.</p><p>If you want to go deeper on building emotional intelligence, communication skills, and genuine connection, I’ve put together resources in my <a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/"><strong>book store on Gumroad</strong></a> — practical tools designed to help you understand yourself and the people you love at a deeper level. Whether you’re navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, or simply trying to feel more connected, there’s something there for you.</p><h3>You Are Not Broken</h3><p>If you shut down in arguments, you are not broken, weak, or emotionally unavailable. You developed a nervous system response that once kept you safe. The work now is gently, consistently teaching that nervous system that it’s okay to stay present — that this relationship is different from the environments that first wired you this way.</p><p>And if you love someone who shuts down, know this: their silence is almost never about not caring. More often, it’s evidence of how much they care — and how much the relationship means to them.</p><p>The bridge between silence and connection is patience, safety, and the willingness to understand what’s happening beneath the surface.</p><h3>📺 Watch the Full Video</h3><p>This article is based on my latest YouTube Short, where I break down the science of emotional shutdown in under 60 seconds. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r606xQJRJns?feature=share">Watch it here →</a></p><h3>📚 Explore More Tools for Connection</h3><p>If this resonated with you, I write and curate resources on emotional intelligence, relationships, and personal growth. Browse my full collection of books and guides at <a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/"><strong>leapfurther.gumroad.com</strong></a> — built for people who want to go further in understanding themselves and building meaningful connections.</p><p><em>Tags: emotional intelligence, relationships, communication, nervous system, freeze response, conflict resolution, mental health, personal growth, attachment styles, emotional shutdown</em></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=003e1bec2aef" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Growth Isn’t a Mindset — It’s Math: How Small Daily Habits Compound Into Life-Changing Results]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/@gigglesnoutstoriesbooks/growth-isnt-a-mindset-it-s-math-how-small-daily-habits-compound-into-life-changing-results-b092119402a9?source=rss-ff218534b1a6------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Level Further]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 17:27:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2026-05-16T17:27:42.781Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people overestimate what they can change in a week and completely underestimate what they can change in a year.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*9rTBoWYiZ6FGNZubr9eu1Q.png" /></figure><p>That gap — between short-term frustration and long-term transformation — isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a math problem. And once you understand the math, you stop white-knuckling your way through self-improvement and start building something that actually works while you sleep, work, and live your ordinary life.</p><p>This isn’t about hustle culture or 5 AM cold plunges (unless that’s genuinely your thing). It’s about understanding why compound growth habits are the single most underrated force in personal development — and how to set up a simple personal development system that uses that force in your favor.</p><p>Let’s start with the numbers, because they’re more surprising than most people realize.</p><h3>The Math Most People Never Do</h3><p>Here’s a number that gets thrown around a lot: <strong>1% better every day for a year equals 37 times better by the end of it.</strong></p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FJeTlD8CN024%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJeTlD8CN024&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJeTlD8CN024%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"><a href="https://medium.com/media/3e6677da1cc0ccdff35915adac8d4cec/href">https://medium.com/media/3e6677da1cc0ccdff35915adac8d4cec/href</a></iframe><p>You’ve probably seen that stat before. But have you actually sat with it?</p><p>Thirty-seven times better. Not 37% better. Thirty-seven <em>times</em>. That’s the difference between someone who reads one book a year and someone who reads thirty-seven. Between someone who walks twenty minutes a day and someone who’s run a half marathon by December.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LeapFurther">Leap Further YouTube channel</a> breaks this down in a video called <em>Growth Isn’t a Mindset, It’s Math</em>, and it’s worth watching if you want to see the actual compounding curve visualized — because seeing the shape of exponential growth changes how you think about your daily choices. The early days look flat and discouraging. The later days look almost vertical. The problem is most people quit during the flat part, right before the curve starts to bend.</p><p>You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTlD8CN024">watch that breakdown here</a>.</p><p>The lesson isn’t just motivational. It reframes what a</p><h3>The Habit That Changes Everything Isn’t the Habit — It’s the Identity</h3><p>Here’s where most self-improvement advice goes sideways: it focuses entirely on outcomes. Lose 20 pounds. Read 12 books. Save $10,000. Those are targets, not systems. And targets without systems are just wishes with deadlines.</p><p>James Clear popularized the idea of identity-based habits, and the core insight is deceptively simple: instead of asking <em>what do I want to achieve</em>, ask <em>who do I want to become</em>. Then act like that person — even in small, almost invisible ways — starting today.</p><p>So if you want to become someone who writes consistently, you don’t start by committing to 1,000 words a day. You start by opening a blank document every morning and writing one sentence. Not because one sentence moves the needle dramatically, but because it casts a vote for the identity “I am a writer.” Enough votes, cast consistently, and the identity sticks. And once the identity sticks, the behavior stops feeling like discipline and starts feeling like just <em>what you do</em>.</p><p>This is the mechanism behind compound growth habits that most people miss. The math works on your identity the same way it works on your bank account. Small deposits, made consistently, accumulate into something you couldn’t have built any other way.</p><h3>How to Build a Personal Development System That Actually Holds</h3><p>A system isn’t a schedule. A schedule tells you <em>when</em>. A system tells you <em>how things connect</em>.</p><p>Here’s a simple framework for building self development habits that compound:</p><h3>1. Pick One Anchor Habit</h3><p>Don’t start with five new habits. Start with one that fits naturally into something you already do. This is called habit stacking — attaching a new behavior to an existing one. Make coffee → read for ten minutes. Walk to your car → listen to a podcast that feeds your growth. The friction is almost zero, which means the follow-through rate goes up dramatically.</p><h3>2. Shrink It Until It’s Almost Embarrassing</h3><p>If your habit feels too small, you’re probably on the right track. The goal in the first two weeks isn’t transformation — it’s repetition. You’re training your nervous system to associate that time, that cue, that behavior, with <em>you</em>. Five minutes of journaling beats a two-hour planning session you do once and abandon.</p><h3>3. Make the System Visible</h3><p>Humans are wired to respond to visual feedback. A simple paper calendar where you cross off each day you showed up — what some people call the “don’t break the chain” method — is more powerful than most apps. When you can <em>see</em> a streak, you feel real psychological resistance to breaking it. That resistance becomes a resource.</p><p>If you want a deeper structure for this kind of daily discipline, the <a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/l/8DailyDisciplines?layout=profile">Rewired for Results — 8 Daily Disciplines</a> ebook and audiobook walks through exactly this kind of system in a format you can implement the same day you read it. It’s built around the idea that results aren’t accidental — they’re the output of deliberate, repeatable daily behavior.</p><h3>Why Invisible Progress Is Still Progress</h3><p>One of the hardest parts of any compound growth system is surviving the lag. You’re putting in the reps, crossing off the days, and the mirror — or the bank account, or the relationship — doesn’t look any different yet.</p><p>This is where most people make a critical error: they interpret the absence of visible results as evidence that the system isn’t working. It almost certainly <em>is</em> working. You’re just in the flat part of the curve.</p><p>There’s a sharp perspective on this in another Leap Further video — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcJU5erjiEw"><em>Your Biggest Risk Isn’t What You Think</em></a> — which reframes the real danger not as failure, but as the quiet cost of staying comfortable and invisible. The risk of <em>not</em> compounding. That reframe matters, because it changes what you’re afraid of. Instead of fearing that your habits aren’t working fast enough, you start fearing what life looks like if you stop.</p><p>Progress during the lag phase is structural. You’re building neural pathways, clearing mental clutter, and slowly becoming the kind of person for whom the result you want is simply a natural consequence of who you are.</p><h3>The Moment the Curve Bends</h3><p>There’s no dramatic announcement when compounding starts to kick in. One day you just notice that the thing you used to force yourself to do has become the thing you do. The journaling. The reading. The walk. The deliberate five minutes of stillness before the day accelerates.</p><p>That’s not willpower. That’s identity, fully installed.</p><p>And here’s what changes once it is: you stop measuring yourself against where you want to be, and you start measuring yourself against who you used to be. That shift in reference point is everything. It’s what makes the system self-sustaining instead of constantly requiring you to drag yourself back to it.</p><p>If you’re still carrying mental clutter that’s making it hard to even get started — the noise, the unfinished decisions, the low-grade anxiety that follows you from room to room — it might be worth looking at the <a href="https://leapfurther.gumroad.com/l/ClearTheClutterChangeYourLife?layout=profile">Clear The Clutter Change Your Life ebook and audiobook</a>. It’s built around the idea that your environment and mental load directly determine how much bandwidth you have for growth. Clear the interference first, then build on quiet ground.</p><h3>What to Actually Do Tomorrow Morning</h3><p>Theory without a next action is just entertainment. So here’s a concrete starting point:</p><p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Pick one habit that takes five minutes or less and attach it to something you already do every morning without thinking — brewing coffee, brushing your teeth, sitting down at your desk.</p><p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Do that habit for fourteen days without changing it, scaling it, or adding anything else. Boring on purpose.</p><p><strong>Step 3:</strong> On day fifteen, ask yourself: does this feel like effort or does it feel like <em>me</em>? If it’s starting to feel like you, you’re ready to either extend the habit or stack a second one on top of it.</p><p><strong>Step 4:</strong> Track it visually. A simple grid on paper, a sticky note on your mirror — anything that gives you a concrete record of showing up.</p><p>That’s it. No overhaul. No perfect morning routine. Just one anchor, one chain, fourteen days. The math takes care of the rest.</p><h3>FAQ: Small Habits, Compound Growth, and Personal Development Systems</h3><h3>What are identity-based habits and why do they work?</h3><p>Identity-based habits are behaviors anchored to how you see yourself rather than what you want to achieve. Instead of saying</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=b092119402a9" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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