Speaker 1: If quantum manifestation truly happens instantly, then the most uncomfortable
Speaker 1: question isn't how to manifest faster, It's this, why does
Speaker 1: it feel like your life is always one step behind
Speaker 1: what you already know is possible. Because here's the part
Speaker 1: nobody says out loud. If something were actually delayed, you
Speaker 1: would feel tension, urgency, and effort. But what many people
Speaker 1: feel instead is stranger than that, a quiet sense of
Speaker 1: almost a neutral frustration, a feeling that things are done somewhere,
Speaker 1: just not here yet. And that sensation isn't imagination, it's
Speaker 1: not impatience, it's not intuition playing tricks on you. It's
Speaker 1: a mismatch between how reality actually works and how the
Speaker 1: human mind was taught to interpret time. Quantum physics has
Speaker 1: already shown us that reality does not unfold in a
Speaker 1: straight line. Possibilities don't move toward you step by step.
Speaker 1: They exist simultaneously in the field as probabilities. Nothing is
Speaker 1: being built, nothing is being sent. There is no process
Speaker 1: moving forward in the way your calendar suggests. From the
Speaker 1: perspective of the quantum field, the moment a state is coherent,
Speaker 1: the outcome already exists. No delay no waiting period, no gap.
Speaker 1: So if the manifestation is instant, what exactly are you
Speaker 1: waiting for? This is where things start to feel uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because the answer is not external. You are not waiting
Speaker 1: for reality. Reality is waiting for you to stop relating
Speaker 1: to it as unfinished. Most people think waiting is passive,
Speaker 1: like sitting still and hoping something arrives, but waiting is
Speaker 1: actually an active internal state. It's a posture, a frequency,
Speaker 1: a way of orienting your attention towards something that feels
Speaker 1: separate from you, and the quantum field does not respond
Speaker 1: to what you want. It responds to how complete or
Speaker 1: incomplete you are in relation to the outcome. Here's the paradox.
Speaker 1: Most manifestation teachings avoid the moment you are or waiting
Speaker 1: for something to arrive. You are confirming internally that it
Speaker 1: is not here, that it is elsewhere, that it is
Speaker 1: future based, and the field reflects that relationship with absolute precision.
Speaker 1: This is why people who try everything often feel like
Speaker 1: they're stuck in a loop. They visualize, they affirm, they
Speaker 1: stay positive, Yet the sense of waiting never leaves, and
Speaker 1: because that state never leaves, neither does the experience of delay.
Speaker 1: Neuroscience explains this in a very grounded way. When the
Speaker 1: brain is oriented toward expectation, it remains in a predictive loop.
Speaker 1: It keeps scanning for confirmation. That scanning reinforces the idea
Speaker 1: that the event has not occurred yet. The nervous system
Speaker 1: stays slightly activated, not stressed enough to panic, not common
Speaker 1: enough to settle, just waiting, and that state cannot collapse
Speaker 1: a new reality because collapse does not happen through anticipation.
Speaker 1: It happens through resolution. Quantum consciousness theory, as explored by
Speaker 1: thinkers like Ahmit Goswami, points to something subtle but critical.
Speaker 1: Consciousness doesn't create by pushing outcomes into existence. It creates
Speaker 1: by selecting from what already exists in the field, and
Speaker 1: selection only happens when there is no internal ambiguity. Waiting
Speaker 1: is ambiguity. It's the internal message that says, this hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet, but maybe it will, and the field mirrors
Speaker 1: that exactly. This is why some of the biggest manifestations
Speaker 1: in people's lives arrive at the moment they stop tracking them,
Speaker 1: not because they gave up, but because the internal relationship
Speaker 1: shifted from becoming to being from expecting to knowing, from
Speaker 1: waiting to neutral, and neutral doesn't mean indifferent, it means complete.
Speaker 1: So when you hear that manifestation is instant, it's not
Speaker 1: a motivational phrase, it's a diagnostic tool. If it hasn't
Speaker 1: shown up, it doesn't mean it's slow. It means something
Speaker 1: inside you was still holding it in the category of
Speaker 1: not yet. And that raises a much more important question
Speaker 1: than how to manifest faster. What would have to change
Speaker 1: inside you for waiting to become unnecessary. That's what we're
Speaker 1: about to unravel next. One of the biggest misunderstandings about
Speaker 1: manifestation comes from assuming that reality moves the way humans
Speaker 1: do forward gradually, step by step. But the quantum field
Speaker 1: doesn't recognize timelines, deadlines, or sequences the way the mind does.
Speaker 1: Time as you experience it is not a property of
Speaker 1: the field, it's a function of perception. From a quantum perspective,
Speaker 1: nothing is being assembled in the future. Outcomes are not
Speaker 1: on the way they already exist as fully formed probabilities
Speaker 1: in a field that is fundamentally outside of linear time.
Speaker 1: The only thing that changes is which probability becomes selected
Speaker 1: into experience. This is where waiting becomes such a powerful clue.
Speaker 1: If manifestation were actually slow, you would feel movement toward something,
Speaker 1: You would feel progression, tension, momentum. But waiting feels strangely flat, neutral,
Speaker 1: almost suspended. That sensation isn't delay, its misalignment between how
Speaker 1: the mind expects reality to behave and how the field
Speaker 1: actually functions. Quantum physics has shown us that particles don't
Speaker 1: travel through space and time in the classical sense. They
Speaker 1: exist as waveforms distributions of possibility until observation collapses them
Speaker 1: into a specific state. Nothing moves into existence, it's chosen.
Speaker 1: The same principle applies to lived experience. What you call
Speaker 1: manifestation is not creation over time. Its selection from what
Speaker 1: already exists, and selection cannot happen when the observer is
Speaker 1: internally split between this is done and this hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1: This is why trying to speed things up never works.
Speaker 1: Speed only exists inside time, and the field does not
Speaker 1: operate inside time. Neuroscience supports this more than people realize.
Speaker 1: When the brain is future oriented, waiting, anticipating, predicting, it
Speaker 1: activates networks designed for survival and planning. These networks are
Speaker 1: useful for navigating physical tasks, but they keep consciousness anchored
Speaker 1: in linear processing. They reinforce the sense of not yet,
Speaker 1: and as long as your nervous system is organized around
Speaker 1: not yet, the field reflects exactly that this is not
Speaker 1: punishment its precision. The quantum field doesn't respond to effort, desire,
Speaker 1: or urgency because none of those are stable states. They fluctuate.
Speaker 1: They oscillate. One moment you believe, the next you doubt.
Speaker 1: One moment you're excited, the next you're scanning for proof.
Speaker 1: The field doesn't know which version of you to mirror.
Speaker 1: Instant manifestation requires something far simpler and far more challenging.
Speaker 1: Internal resolution. Resolution means the system has stopped negotiating with
Speaker 1: the outcome. There's no internal conversation running, no monitoring, no checking,
Speaker 1: no emotional charge around whether it happens or not. The
Speaker 1: state becomes settled, and when a system settles, selection becomes possible.
Speaker 1: This is why people often report that their biggest manifestations
Speaker 1: arrived when they were focused on something else, emotionally neutral
Speaker 1: or no longer trying. Not because at tension creates reality,
Speaker 1: but because the absence of internal interference allows coherence to stabilize,
Speaker 1: time disappears the moment coherence is reached. That's also why
Speaker 1: the phrase it's already done can either be powerful or
Speaker 1: completely useless, depending on how it's held internally. If it's
Speaker 1: used as a mantra to fight doubt, it reinforces effort,
Speaker 1: But when it's felt as a quiet recognition, without emotion,
Speaker 1: without urgency, it reflects how the field already operates. The
Speaker 1: field does not move forward toward you. You move into
Speaker 1: coherence with what already exists. Waiting then, is not time passing,
Speaker 1: its consciousness hovering between states. And this is the part
Speaker 1: most teachings never address. You don't exit waiting by becoming
Speaker 1: more positive or more patient. You exit waiting by changing
Speaker 1: your relationship with completion itself, by letting go of the
Speaker 1: internal need for confirmation before you allow yourself to feel resolved.
Speaker 1: This is why manifestation feels instant only after it's already happened.
Speaker 1: From the inside. It feels like nothing was building, nothing
Speaker 1: was progressing, nothing was coming closer, And then suddenly it's here.
Speaker 1: That's not delay ending, that's ambiguity collapsing. And once you
Speaker 1: see this clearly, another question becomes unavoidable. If time was
Speaker 1: never the issue. What internal posture has been keeping you
Speaker 1: in the state of waiting. That's what we need to
Speaker 1: address next. At this point, it becomes important to say
Speaker 1: something that might feel confronting at first. Waiting is not
Speaker 1: something that happens to you. Waiting is something your system
Speaker 1: is doing. Most people treat waiting as a neutral pause,
Speaker 1: like standing still while the universe catches up. But internally,
Speaker 1: waiting is an active posture. It's a subtle orientation of
Speaker 1: consciousness that keeps the outcome positioned in the future and
Speaker 1: the self positioned in the present incomplete without it, and
Speaker 1: the quantum field is exquisitely sensitive to that orientation. From
Speaker 1: the outside, two people can look identical, same goals, same desires,
Speaker 1: same intentions, but internally one is resolved and the other
Speaker 1: is waiting. One feels complete without evidence, the other feels
Speaker 1: suspended until proof arrives, and the field responds to those
Speaker 1: two states as entirely different realities. Neuroscience explains why waiting
Speaker 1: is so sticky. When the brain is oriented toward expectation,
Speaker 1: it activates predictive processing. The mind begins scanning for signals, timing, signs, feedback.
Speaker 1: Even when you're being patient, The nervous system remains slightly alert,
Speaker 1: not stressed enough to panic, not calm enough to settle,
Speaker 1: just open enough to keep checking. That checking loop reinforces
Speaker 1: a single message, this is not here yet, and repetition
Speaker 1: wires that message deeper. Over time, waiting becomes familiar, comfortable,
Speaker 1: even it turns into an identity. The person who is
Speaker 1: in the process, the person who is almost there, the
Speaker 1: person who knows something is coming but hasn't arrived yet.
Speaker 1: That identity feels hopeful, but it's still incomplete, and the
Speaker 1: field mirror's identity before it mirrors intention. This is why
Speaker 1: many people experience a strange emotional flattening when they've been
Speaker 1: manifesting for a long time. The excitement fades, the urgency softens,
Speaker 1: but the waiting remains. It becomes quieter, more subtle, harder
Speaker 1: to detect, and because it's subtle, it's harder to release.
Speaker 1: Quantum manifestation doesn't fail at the level of desire, it
Speaker 1: stalls at the level of relationship. How are you relating
Speaker 1: to the thing you say you want? If it feels
Speaker 1: like something that would finally allow you to relax, feel safe,
Speaker 1: feel validated, feel complete, then waiting is built into the
Speaker 1: relationship itself. The nervous system has learned that completion lives
Speaker 1: in the future, and as long as completion is future based,
Speaker 1: the present state remains unresolved. This is why letting go
Speaker 1: is so often misunderstood. People think letting go means forgetting, suppressing,
Speaker 1: or pretending not to care. But letting go has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with attention. It has everything to do with dependency.
Speaker 1: You don't let go of the desire. You let go
Speaker 1: of the internal requirement that it must arrive for you
Speaker 1: to be whole. When that requirement dissolves, waiting dissolves with it.
Speaker 1: From a quantum perspective, this is the moment ambiguity collapses.
Speaker 1: Consciousness stops broadcasting mixed signals. There's no longer a split
Speaker 1: between who you are now and who you'll be. Once
Speaker 1: it arrives, the system becomes coherent, and coherence doesn't need time.
Speaker 1: This is also why many manifestations appear out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: From the outside, it looks sudden, but internally, something very
Speaker 1: specific happened. First, the person stopped relating to the outcome
Speaker 1: as missing, not intellectually, somatically, nervously, identity wise, the nervous
Speaker 1: system relaxed its grip, and when that happens, the field
Speaker 1: doesn't need to catch up. It simply reflects the new state.
Speaker 1: This is uncomfortable for the mind because it removes control.
Speaker 1: The mind wants to manage outcomes, track progress, feel useful.
Speaker 1: Waiting gives the mind a job. Letting go removes that
Speaker 1: job entirely, which is why people often sabotage this phase
Speaker 1: without realizing it. The moment things feel quiet, neutral, or resolved,
Speaker 1: the mind panics. It asks, shouldn't I be doing something?
Speaker 1: And so it reintroduces effort visualization analysis not because it's necessary,
Speaker 1: but because uncertainty without control feels unsafe. But that reintroduction
Speaker 1: of effort reactivates waiting. This is the loop most people
Speaker 1: never see. Manifestation isn't blocked because you're doing too little.
Speaker 1: It's blocked because you keep returning to the state of
Speaker 1: not yet the moment things go quiet, So the real
Speaker 1: question becomes, can you tolerate completion before evidence arrives? Not
Speaker 1: force it, not affirm it, not convince yourself of it,
Speaker 1: just allow it. Because the moment your system no longer
Speaker 1: needs the outcome to relax, the field has a clear
Speaker 1: signal to respond to, and that raises the next turning
Speaker 1: point in this conversation. If waiting is a state, not
Speaker 1: a delay, what actually flips the internal switch that ends it.
Speaker 1: That's what will move into next. If waiting is a state,
Speaker 1: then it can only end when another state replaces it,
Speaker 1: not through effort, not through discipline, but through a shift
Speaker 1: so internal that the system no longer knows how to
Speaker 1: wait anymore. This is the part that almost nobody explains clearly,
Speaker 1: because it sounds deceptively simple and deeply uncomfortable at the
Speaker 1: same time. Waiting ends the moment your nervous system no
Speaker 1: longer treats the outcome as something required for safety, identity,
Speaker 1: or completion. That's it. The switch is not mental, it's physiological.
Speaker 1: It's the moment the body stops bracing for the future.
Speaker 1: From a neuroscience perspective, this happens when the brain exits
Speaker 1: predictive stress loops. As long as your system is subtly
Speaker 1: preparing for disappointment, managing hope, or monitoring timing, it remains
Speaker 1: oriented towards survival. Even positive anticipation keeps the nervous system
Speaker 1: slightly activated. That activation is enough to signal incompletion and
Speaker 1: the quantum field mirrors the nerverv a system before it
Speaker 1: mirrors the mind. This is why so many people intellectually
Speaker 1: understand manifestation but still feel stuck. They know it's possible,
Speaker 1: but their body is still waiting. Their muscles are slightly tense,
Speaker 1: their breathing shallow, their attention fragmented between now and later.
Speaker 1: The system is not at rest. Rest is not laziness.
Speaker 1: Rest is coherence. In quantum terms, coherence is when all
Speaker 1: internal signals point in the same direction. No contradiction, no negotiation,
Speaker 1: no inner dialogue about whether it will happen or not.
Speaker 1: The observer is settled, and settled systems collapse reality faster
Speaker 1: than motivated ones. The internal switch happens when you stop
Speaker 1: checking your reality for confirmation, not because you're avoiding disappointment,
Speaker 1: but because confirmation is no longer required for regulation. You
Speaker 1: don't need evidence to feel safe, you don't need signs
Speaker 1: to feel aligned, you don't need progress feel resolved. That's
Speaker 1: the switch. Most people mistake this moment for indifference or
Speaker 1: loss of interest. They think, maybe I don't want this anymore,
Speaker 1: But that's not what's happening. Desire doesn't disappear, dependency does
Speaker 1: and dependency is what creates waiting. From the perspective of
Speaker 1: quantum consciousness, this is when selection becomes possible. Consciousness is
Speaker 1: no longer split between present identity and future identity. There
Speaker 1: is no before and after version of you. Internally, there
Speaker 1: is just one coherent state, and the field responds immediately
Speaker 1: to coherence, not emotionally, not dramatically, but structurally. This is
Speaker 1: why manifestation often feels quiet right before it happens. There's
Speaker 1: no surge of excitement, no urgency, no mental rehearsal, just
Speaker 1: a sense that nothing needs to be managed anymore. The
Speaker 1: mind hates this phase because the mind equates effort with
Speaker 1: control and control with safety. So when effort dissolves, the
Speaker 1: mind tries to reinsert itself. It asks questions, It reopens loops,
Speaker 1: It brings back timelines. It suggests just one more affirmation,
Speaker 1: just one more visualization, just one more check, and the
Speaker 1: moment you follow that impulse waiting returns. So the work
Speaker 1: here is not to do something new. It's to notice
Speaker 1: when the system is already resolved and to not interrupt it.
Speaker 1: This is where subtle awareness matters more than technique. Being
Speaker 1: able to recognize the moment when the body relaxes around
Speaker 1: the outcome when the emotional charge drops, when the mental
Speaker 1: narrative quiets, and allowing that state to remain untouched, because
Speaker 1: that state is the signal to gently anchor this internally.
Speaker 1: Here's a simple engagement you can use not as affirmation,
Speaker 1: not as forcing, but as alignment. If this resonates right,
Speaker 1: it's already done in the comments, not to convince yourself,
Speaker 1: not to claim anything, but as a way of marking coherence,
Speaker 1: a recognition, not a request. The act of writing isn't
Speaker 1: what matters. The state you write from is. And if
Speaker 1: writing that sentence feels neutral, not exciting, not hopeful, not desperate,
Speaker 1: that neutrality is exactly the state the field responds to.
Speaker 1: Because the field doesn't respond to effort, it responds to resolution.
Speaker 1: And once this switch flips, something else begins to happen,
Speaker 1: something that confuses most people. At first. Reality starts rearranging
Speaker 1: itself in ways you didn't plan, didn't predict, and couldn't
Speaker 1: have visualized. Once the internal switch flips and waiting dissolves,
Speaker 1: something subtle but unmistakable begins to happen. Reality doesn't rush
Speaker 1: toward you, It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't arrive with
Speaker 1: fireworks or dramatic confirmation. Instead, it starts to reorganize quietly,
Speaker 1: almost indifferently, as if it were correcting something that had
Speaker 1: been out of place for a long time. This is
Speaker 1: where many people get confused. They expect manifestation to feel
Speaker 1: like reward, like validation, like the universe finally saying yes,
Speaker 1: But what actually happens feels more like normalization. Conversation shift,
Speaker 1: opportunities appear casually, Obstacles dissolve without explanation, Situations that once
Speaker 1: felt complicated suddenly feel unnecessary, And because it doesn't feel dramatic,
Speaker 1: the mind struggles to recognize it as manifestation at all.
Speaker 1: From a quantum perspective, this makes perfect sense. When coherence stabilizes,
Speaker 1: the field doesn't need to deliver anything. It simply reflects
Speaker 1: the new internal order. Probability paths rearrange, certain options become irrelevant,
Speaker 1: others become obvious. Reality doesn't change direction, it changes accessibility.
Speaker 1: This is why people often say it just worked out,
Speaker 1: or it happened naturally, or I wasn't even and trying.
Speaker 1: Those phrases aren't accidental. They're descriptions of a system that
Speaker 1: is no longer being interfered with. The key thing to
Speaker 1: understand here is that manifestation doesn't add things to your life.
Speaker 1: It removes resistance from the paths that already exist. Once
Speaker 1: the system is coherent, outcomes don't need to fight their
Speaker 1: way in. They're simply no longer blocked. Neuroscience explains this
Speaker 1: through attentional filtering. When the nervous system is no longer
Speaker 1: activated by lack or anticipation, perception shifts. You stop scanning
Speaker 1: for proof and start responding to what's actually present. Decisions
Speaker 1: become simpler. Timing improves. You say yes to things you
Speaker 1: would have hesitated on before, and know to things that
Speaker 1: once drained you. From the outside, it looks like confidence.
Speaker 1: From the inside, it feels like ease. This is also
Speaker 1: why manifestations often arrive in forms you didn't expect. When
Speaker 1: you were waiting, your mind was trying to predict the
Speaker 1: how created narrow channels. But once waiting ends, the field
Speaker 1: has more room to respond creatively. It chooses the path
Speaker 1: of least resistance, not the path you imagined, and because
Speaker 1: of that, many people almost miss their manifestation when it arrives.
Speaker 1: They're looking for a specific shape, a specific sign, a
Speaker 1: specific story. Meanwhile, reality has already shifted in their favor,
Speaker 1: just not in the way they rehearsed. This is where
Speaker 1: trust becomes practical, not philosophical. Trust doesn't mean believing everything
Speaker 1: will work out. It means allowing the outcome to arrive
Speaker 1: without demanding that it matches your expectations. It means recognizing
Speaker 1: that coherence gives the field permission to solve the problem
Speaker 1: more efficiently than the mind ever could. Another important thing
Speaker 1: happens in this phase. Urgency disappears, not because you stopped caring,
Speaker 1: but because caring no longer feels heavy. You're no longer
Speaker 1: emotionally negotiating with the future. The system feels stable, regardless
Speaker 1: of timing, and that stability creates momentum without force. This
Speaker 1: is why people often experience a brief period of emotional
Speaker 1: quiet before things move quickly. The nervous system recalibrates, old
Speaker 1: patterns lose relevance. You may feel less reactive, less attached
Speaker 1: to outcomes, less compelled to explain yourself or your direction
Speaker 1: to others. This isn't withdrawal, its recalibration, and recalibration is
Speaker 1: necessary before a larger shift can fully land. If you've
Speaker 1: ever noticed that right before a big change, life feels
Speaker 1: strangely uneventful. This is why the field is reorganizing probabilities,
Speaker 1: not creating noise. Silence is not absence. Silence is alignment.
Speaker 1: The danger in this phase is subtle. It's the temptation
Speaker 1: to reintroduce effort because things feel too quiet. The mind
Speaker 1: worries that nothing is happening. It wants reassurance, it wants movement.
Speaker 1: If you're not aware, you might step back into waiting
Speaker 1: without realizing it. That's why the most important skill here
Speaker 1: is not action, but non interference. Let the rearrangement complete itself.
Speaker 1: Let the new paths become obvious on their own. Because
Speaker 1: once coherence is established, reality doesn't need guidance. It needs space.
Speaker 1: And when you allow that space to remain open, the
Speaker 1: final shift, the visible, undeniable change, tends to arrive faster
Speaker 1: than you expect and in a way that feels almost inevitable.
Speaker 1: That brings us to the final piece of this conversation.
Speaker 1: How to stabilize this state so you don't fall back
Speaker 1: into waiting the moment results begin to show. That's where
Speaker 1: everything comes together. The final piece is not about getting
Speaker 1: what you want It's about staying who you became when
Speaker 1: Waiting disappeared. This is where most people unknowingly undo their
Speaker 1: own manifestations, not because they doubt again, not because they
Speaker 1: lose faith, but because the nervous system isn't yet from
Speaker 1: meamiliar with stability. Once something begins to move, once reality
Speaker 1: starts responding, the old habit of monitoring quietly returns. The
Speaker 1: mind asks is this it? The body tightened slightly, attention
Speaker 1: shifts forward again, and Waiting re enters the system. This
Speaker 1: is why manifestation isn't a moment. It's a state that
Speaker 1: must be stabilized. The field can respond instantly, but the
Speaker 1: nervous system needs repetition to remain coherent without effort, Otherwise
Speaker 1: it slips back into anticipation, control or subtle urgency the
Speaker 1: moment things feel uncertain again. From a quantum perspective, this
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. Consciousness doesn't collapse reality once and stop.
Speaker 1: It continuously selects experience based on the most dominant internal state.
Speaker 1: If coherence is momentary, results are temporary. If coherence becomes identity,
Speaker 1: reality reorganizes permanently. This is the difference between attracting something
Speaker 1: and becoming someone. Becoming is quieter, less exciting, less dramatic,
Speaker 1: but infinitely more powerful. You don't stabilize this state by
Speaker 1: trying to hold it. That would be effort again. You
Speaker 1: stabilize it by creating structures that return you to coherence
Speaker 1: when the mind wanders, not forcing alignment remembering it. This
Speaker 1: is where intentional frameworks matter. Not techniques, not rituals done
Speaker 1: out of fear, but systems designed to help the nervous
Speaker 1: system feel safe without future based reassurance, to feel complete,
Speaker 1: without needing evidence, to return to neutrality, without suppressing desire.
Speaker 1: That's why I created the Quantum Rebirth Work, not to
Speaker 1: teach manifestation, but to help stabilize the internal state where
Speaker 1: manifestation no longer requires effort. It's designed to guide you
Speaker 1: through identity level shifts, not mindset shifts, so coherence becomes
Speaker 1: familiar instead of fragile, and alongside it, the quantum Grip
Speaker 1: exists as a practical companion, not as a list of
Speaker 1: things to do, but as a way to ground this
Speaker 1: state into daily awareness without turning it into another project.
Speaker 1: This isn't about changing reality. It's about removing the internal
Speaker 1: conditions that were preventing reality from responding In the first place,