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> **Provenance note:** Body from Wayback HTML. The linked printable PDF (`forty-walls-2`) was not successfully extracted in this pass — follow up if Dean wants the full forty named.

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# The Forty Walls

**October 7, 2011 — Ryan Rush**

Walls can be as plentiful as the unhealthy mindsets we generate, but there are forty walls that almost all of us has to deal with at one time or another. The good news: we’re all in the same boat. The better news: you don’t have to hold on to these mindsets!

As you may already know, we believe that there are eight primary walls. Each of these eight can manifest itself in distinct ways — which brings us to forty.

Identifying your wall is a major step toward a Faith Breakthrough. Let the Walls come down!

Original site pointed to a printable PDF of the Forty Walls list at `/2011/10/the-forty-walls/forty-walls-2/`.