Productivity for Students
Overcoming Procrastination and Perfectionism
In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I discuss the best productivity strategies for students to get their work done without the usual obstacles.
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The 5 AM Miracle Podcast, hosted by Jeff Sanders
Episode #578: Productivity for Students: Overcoming Procrastination and Perfectionism
Jeff Sanders
If you're a student, plan to become one, or value your own ongoing education, even long after you left school, this episode is for you.
This is The 5 AM Miracle, episode number 578, pProductivity for Students: Overcoming Procrastination and Perfectionism.
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Now, in the episode this week, I'll break down how students can become more productive by overcoming two of the biggest challenges all students face.
I will also share why productivity in school is actually wildly overrated and what true productivity for students looks like depending on your long-term goals.
Let's dig in.
So a few weeks ago, I received an email from Kenzie Johnson.
Now, Kenzie is a student at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
And Kenzie had a question for me, actually quite a few questions.
She was working on an article for her student newspaper and had a bunch of phenomenal questions about productivity for students.
She has heard this podcast before, but felt there was not quite enough targeted towards students directly.
and I thought it was an awesome chance to actually answer her questions both for the paper as well as for this podcast.
And so the episode this week is going to feature my answers to her questions specifically, as well as a few other tidbits that I've thrown in for some context and some ways to kind of beef this up so that if you are currently a student, if you want to become a student, it may a great one, if you are going back to school, if you just value education in general or productivity or focus or.
or you struggle with perfectionism or procrastination or any of these big topics.
All of this is going to be fantastic for you.
And honestly, this is a topic I should have covered in more detail years ago.
But nonetheless, here we are.
The episode is actually going live right as finals week is taking place for most schools here in the U.S.
as well as I assume other schools around the world.
If by chance this comes out after you have finished your semester and you miss the chance
to be productive last semester.
Well, guess what?
You get another one coming up very soon.
So this is going to be relevant regardless of the time of year you hear this.
There's always more to learn.
There's always more opportunity to be productive, to procrastinate less,
to tackle perfectionism, which is an ongoing battle for all of us, myself included.
In fact, if you heard the intro to this podcast that I did not record well over and over and over again,
you would know that I struggle with this just as much as anybody.
So from that perspective, let's dig in and answer some awesome questions about productivity for students.
Question number one.
Do you have any advice on how students can reframe their mindset to view tasks as more manageable and less overwhelming?
Yes, I do.
In fact, I have over 11 years' worth of advice on this topic, specifically overwhelm.
But let's start with the context of this one.
The question is interesting about reframing the mindset to view tasks as manageable,
which is a fascinating question because there's an assumption made that you can actually change your mindset and therefore tackle your current task load without having to actually change the tasks themselves.
In other words, let's imagine you have a slew of work to get through.
And the work is non-negotiable.
You're going to have to do it.
Well, you have an option as to how to view that work based on your mindset.
And I love the kind of open-edness of this question because it's making the assumption you have a choice.
It's making the assumption that you can choose to view the workload you have in a different context and from a different perspective, one that's possibly more positive, more productive, more of a forward-thinking vision casting, I can see myself succeeding vision.
That is fantastic.
So to answer the question directly, you can reduce the overwhelm of tasks and calm your mind by taking away the emotional distress of overwhelm that comes from trying to do everything at one time.
Oftentimes, the issue is not the task themselves.
It's our desire to get it all done at once.
Now, you may think, well, I have a ton of work to do and it's all due now.
Honestly, it probably isn't.
Yes, I have been a student. I have been through school. I have a college degree with two majors. I know it's like to push yourself and take a ton of classes at the same time. It can be overwhelming. I absolutely know that. I have lived it. It is a thing that we have to somehow wiggle our way through. There are some paths forward here that can reduce this at the outset. The very simple nature of just taking fewer classes per semester, for example. I have some friends who when I was in school,
actually reduce their workload intentionally by delaying their graduation,
sometimes by as much as a year, so they could take fewer classes per semester
and do better with the work that they had.
One of my friends in particular did this, and he got a 4.0 GPA in those final
years.
First couple of years, not so much, but on the years that he reduced his workload,
his grades skyrocketed.
So if you are looking for a very direct opportunity to reduce overwhelm, forget the
mindset for a second, just actually reduce the workload itself, you can do that.
It's a choice.
How many classes you take and the way you balance them, there is wiggle room there.
Now, sometimes hard work is hard work and you really will have to figure out how to just
bulldoze your way through it, which is where the mindset piece comes in.
But at the end of the day, the question of overwhelm is a question of tackling things
one thing at a time.
In other words, if you attempt to do everything at the same time, that's the definition of overwhelm because you can't.
It's physiologically impossible.
We want to.
We are striving to do more all the time, but that in and of itself is the problem.
Viewing productivity as this mountain to climb as these gauntlet of things to overcome and always wanting more, more is what leads to overwhelm itself.
And so looking back at this from school, it's almost 20 years later,
My question to myself is, what could I have done differently back then?
And the obvious answer would be to do less.
Now, there's so basic kind of daily protocols that can make this happen in a more succinct manner.
Number one is to write down everything that is due.
Or even better than that is just to do a brain dump, which means to get everything out of your head and onto paper more often.
That could be journaling, that could be podcasting, could be blogging.
It could be anything that allows you to just say, let me take the stress out of my head, put it onto paper so I can literally detach myself from the work itself.
Once that has happened, you are then external to it, and you can now manage it as opposed to it managing you.
One of the problems we find with overwhelm is that it becomes an emotional identity, that you literally attach yourself to the stress to the point where you can't remove yourself.
from it. It feels like it's just in you. Because it kind of is. It's in your head. It's in your soul. You just kind of ooze stress at every turn. That's not going to help. What is going to help is to get that stuff out of you to write it down, make it external so you can manage it. Once this is true, you then remove, postpone, or reschedule everything that can wait. This is subjective. This is your choice as far as what can wait till later.
But one thing I can say about this is that my tendency as a student, definitely when I was in college, was to do everything at the last minute.
I mean, absolutely, every assignment, pulling all nighters all the time, trying desperately to do whatever I had to do to just turn it in on time and run away.
Now, I've actually covered that topic on purpose in this podcast before with the idea of purposeful procrastination.
In other words, you intentionally wait to the last minute because then you spend less time on the task.
which is true in total.
You will spend less time on something if you have a very short window to hit.
But you will run the risk of massive stress increases, burnout, overwhelm, all-nighters, no sleep, poor health.
It's just, honestly, it's not worth it.
I've done it many times.
I do not prefer it and I do not live that way today if I can help it, which is usually the case.
And you can help it.
You do have that power and control the vast majority of the time.
In fact, I have one more friend from college who actually did all of his class work from 8 to 5.
He made his life a 40 hour a week work life.
In other words, as a college student, he was studying and taking classes and doing his job from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
And then he stopped. He clocked out for the day.
And honestly, it worked. He got into law school afterwards.
It was very successful. He was very good at it.
He was calm. His stress was a lot lower than the rest of ours.
and he was still productive.
It's not really a question of trying to live a certain way.
It's living a way that works for you.
And to intentionally postpone things, to put things off,
it has to work for you.
It has to be built into the way that you are productive.
So if you were to intentionally procrastinate on an assignment
or studying for a test or writing a big paper until the last minute,
you have to know your skill set and you have to know you can pull that off
to get the grade you want.
And if you can't, if that strategy isn't working for you, change strategies.
Work ahead, do what you have to do to pace this out over the course of the semester.
Now, one advantage there is that most universities, most classes, will give you a syllabus up front and they'll tell you most of the major assignments and tests and things to prepare for.
So you can up front actually organize your life for the next semester and pre-schedule your study time.
You can actually map this out on purpose in the beginning.
I cannot stress this enough.
This is the answer.
Okay, planning your life in advance and sticking to your plan,
that's a game changer.
Most people will not do this.
They just won't.
They will wait.
They will procrastinate.
They will live that life.
Their hair will be on fire and they'll complain about it to the end of the earth.
What I'm telling you, there is a way out, and it's about being intentional,
making a plan, and sticking to it.
You can take my advice or leave it, but at the end of the day, the stress level you take on is a choice.
And that's going to be the thing that will drive all of this advice.
Stress is a choice.
Our next piece of advice here is to take.
take the things you wrote down, you postpone and rescheduled things,
you then prioritize the remaining tasks in order of importance and urgency.
A very simple idea, you know, numbers 1 through 10,
one is the most important and 10 is the least important.
And start with number one, and then you work on one task at a time.
That's it.
You focus without distraction to tackle each task one at a time.
Ideally, you do so in a distraction-free manner.
Here on this podcast, I've discussed focused blocks of time endlessly, and I will
always do so because focus blocks of time are everything.
I actually first discovered them on accident in the library at school.
When I was in college, my first, at least two years, I would study in my dorm room
or my fraternity house or just around campus.
It wasn't until my junior year that I discovered the library.
It's a thing.
It exists.
It's awesome.
And once I discovered these little cubbies they had,
They were kind of, you know, tucked away and in the dark, I could go hide myself in a cubby,
distraction-free, work time was then guaranteed.
Because there was nobody there to bother me, and those who were there and who were annoying were somewhere else.
So I was in a little cubby, told no one I was there just to hide away, do my work, and get out of there.
And it changed everything for me.
Massive game changer just based in the idea of focus alone.
And so you combine these things together.
Once again, this is like a structure for how you approach productivity.
You write it all down.
You postpone what you can.
You prioritize the list that remains, work on one thing at a time in a focused block of time.
That right there will increase your grade point average overnight.
That's going to be a big deal.
And this is going to help with overwhelm in a very dramatic way because it's tangible.
You can schedule this stuff.
You can work on this.
That's where overwhelm gets defeated.
is the prioritization of action, doing things, getting things done, and especially in a manner that reduces your task lists that makes it shorter and more manageable.
The emotional release there is palpable.
You can feel it.
It's amazing.
Okay, I hope that answers the first question.
We've got four more.
Let's get to do this.
Question number two.
Many students procrastinate due to fear of failure or perfectionism.
How can they push past this?
First of all, there is no perfect.
So a good enough end result will come if you choose to start and you just keep working until you are finished.
Now, the finish line may be subjective as you attempt to reach some perfect end result,
but I can tell you as someone who got A's and a lot of classes that there is a threshold of work that is a waste of your time.
Once you achieve the end result you're looking for, for example, when I was in school, an A was a 90% or an 89.5.
That's all I had to reach to get an A in the class.
There were no pluses and minuses.
It was just a straight A, B, C, D, F grade.
And so if I were to get an 89.5% in the class, I would get an A.
For me, that meant I was done.
If I achieved that percentage, I quit working in that class and I walked away.
So if your goal is to be perfect, you have to define what perfect means to you.
And the actual idea of perfectionism is what makes students go insane.
You will drive yourself crazy trying to do everything well.
I really strived for that for a while until I realized that my better sweet spot in school was what I called kind of the B plus mentality, which meant that if I could get a B plus or maybe an A minus in most of my classes,
that I would actually end up with the GPA that I wanted and everything would be fine.
Fine was my goal.
Now, fine had a certain criteria, but I defined it up front.
And you have to define for yourself what that goal happens to be.
And if you attempt to achieve perfection, if you attempt to push yourself to that,
and because of that, you actually don't do anything at all.
You freeze in the headlights.
It's not going to work.
Procrastination doesn't lead to a perfect end result.
And it's actually counterproductive to delay work that then may or may not be perfect if and when you choose to work on it.
Long story short here is that the only path is through, meaning you start now with what you have and you make small iterations to progress yourself over time to a suitable end result.
You may be a valedictorian.
You may want the 4.0 GPA.
Honestly, I think it's a terrible pursuit.
I know people who are valedictorians.
I know the 4.0 students.
and I can tell you that for the most part, they have an intensity about them
that does not suit most people, and I don't even think it suits them.
I think it's a fool's errand most of the time, primarily because this is the bigger
picture we'll get to in a second, is that once you leave college, nobody cares
about your 4.0.
I know, right?
Crazy, but they don't care.
Like, really they don't.
And so if you're really striving for perfection, and then you find out a few years,
later that nobody cared, what was all the stress for? What was all the chaos about?
I know. It's a hard thing to recognize that when you're in the bubble, I'm going to have
myself here, when you're in the college bubble, everything seems important for what
the college bubble tells you is important. But when that bubble bursts and you're
out of school, everything is different. Everything. And so I cannot stress this enough.
Do not strive for perfection.
Stop now.
I will give you that grace.
We'll take a breath.
Okay.
No more perfectionism.
It's gone.
Okay.
Number three.
What daily habits can students develop to strengthen their self-discipline
and consistency?
I love this one because this one is going to be the most difficult.
I say that because discipline and consistency and the student's life or the life
of a college student in modern day America, let's say, because that's where I went to school, is one of battling the academics versus the social life.
For me, that was everything.
Work hard and play hard.
Do really well in school and do really well in your social life.
And by that I literally mean, you go to class, you study, you take tests, you get the grades you want, and then you have friends and parties and you stay out late and you make terrible decisions that you regret later.
All of that is what college was about for me, and it is for many people.
And so if your attempt is to strengthen yourself discipline, that's going to be an opposing force to the rest of your life, right?
The discipline you exude in class will clash with your desire to be a social butterfly.
Now, there are ways to make that work, but at the end of the day, you have to choose one or the other.
You cannot choose both simultaneously.
And so there's a give and take here, right?
My advice as an adult is definitely different than my advice as a student.
So let's just give my advice in a very kind of direct adult manner, which is to go to bed on time, which is kind of a joke in school.
Wake up early, also kind of ridiculous.
And make your bed, a thing I actually did personally.
But I did not go to bed early.
I did not wake up early.
That came much later.
Now, committing to a basic morning routine, this can be helpful.
and will set the tone for the day and get you moving in the direction of progress
regardless of your actual bedtime.
So discipline in this case is actually just doing the work that you don't emotionally want to do.
So you can then train yourself to do the work regardless of how you feel about it in the moment.
Discipline is a phenomenal skill set.
It will serve you both in school and out.
It's a great thing to improve upon as you move through your education.
However, the idea that you will develop discipline and strengthen that and being more consistent really comes down to your values.
It comes down to what are your goals and what will you sacrifice to make that happen.
Once again, you can build in boundaries and focus blocks of time and implement all kinds of strategies that I did not do in school.
And I still made it through even though I really didn't know what I was doing.
So if you train yourself and you learn the skills and you apply them, it's going to be a lot easier for you.
but you will always still have that tension between academics and your social life and figuring out how to make those work.
Or you may even also have a side job or other hobbies or other groups that you're a part of.
Like there is so much you can do in school far beyond the classroom or going to parties.
And so discipline is going to play in to all of this.
And the question of asking how do I improve that discipline?
Well, the answer is daily habits.
The answer is set some boundaries for yourself and stick to them and improve them over time.
Regardless of the actual wake-up time or bedtime you set, regardless of your class schedule,
you can set specific routines and habits to stick to and make those non-negotiable.
When you do that, your discipline will improve.
You can then apply that same skill set to your classes and your other personal goals.
Question number four.
What advice would you give to students juggling multiple commitments who feel paralyzed by their to-do list?
I've kind of already hit on this in a few different directions, but what I will say to this is that with this mentality,
of overwhelm, kind of hovering around here, and this obviousness that we can't do
at all. I think your best bet in most cases is to do a whole lot less than you think
you need to do. In other words, intentionally cut anything and everything that is not
tied to your highest priorities, which also means you need to know very clearly
what those priorities happen to be. Productivity in school. Let's tackle this now. I believe
wildly overrated. That includes GPA, it includes resume building, it includes all the
fluffy nonsense that we think is really powerful in school, really necessary,
only to find out after school that nobody cares. So it's amazing how many things
students will commit to under this assumption that it will make a tangible difference
when they leave school. But the reality is that the real world after college has very
different priorities than what is propped up as important during college and the
goal of a university experience, let's say, is not to exhaust yourself doing a bunch of
things that your quote unquote future self or a future employer or maybe
customers might not care about at all.
Long story short here is, our goal is to do less and do those things well, but also
in the things we choose to do, those fewer things, they need to be tied.
to something that matters to you both now and hopefully later as well.
To put some teeth to this, when I was in school and I was in a fraternity,
all four years I was there, there were social events and very specific kind of social
hierarchies and these events we would go to where we had to look a certain way
and achieve certain goals.
We had this bubble we were in, both in school and in my fraternity and in this life
I had.
And then I left school and found out that me trying to become the Greek week king who didn't mean anything.
Nobody cared about that at all.
I thought it was really important.
I was really excited about the possibility of that being on my resume.
It didn't actually happen and wouldn't have mattered if it did or didn't.
It doesn't matter.
And there's lots of examples of this kind of stuff where we are trying to do something.
That's something being resume building and GPA improvement.
All of these things tied to what is value.
as a great student would do, just to then apply for a job and discover that what
the real world wants are skills. What the real world's asking you for is to deliver
value and to serve other people in a way that meets their needs. And it's just
literally the almost exact opposite of what you did in school just simply trying to
prove that you knew things. No one really cares if you know things in the real world.
They care if you can help them. That's it. If you can help them, if you can
help somebody else, they're going to value you. And if you can't, they're going to find
someone else who can. There's a lot of ways to kind of reach that pinnacle of being
able to be helpful. But I'm telling you that this pursuit of the college bubble,
this attempt to be perfect in school, is not only a waste of time. It's not only stress
inducing and overwhelming. It might be the biggest fraud I've ever seen in terms of what
telling people to value and then slapping them in the face and saying,
ha ha, never mind, none of that stuff matters.
It's, there's no reason for it to exist.
There's no reason for you to leave school and get smacked in the face with this
dose of reality.
We could actually have some reality in school.
We don't do that, but it could be a thing.
I'm ranting now.
I will stop, but I'm just telling you this, this topic really, it's very personal.
It gets me right here.
So, okay, I'm going to move on now.
Question number five.
How can students bounce back and refocus when procrastination has already led to missed deadlines or poor performance?
Bouncing back is one of the best skills you could ever acquire, both in school and afterwards.
The ability to refocus, to get back on track, to admit a fault, to admit that you have procrastinated, that you have missed deadlines,
that you have performed poorly, to admit that that is reality, but then somehow
have a comeback story, to be able to improve when you have previously had missteps.
That is everything.
The real world is nothing but making a lot of mistakes, learning from them, and then
improving for the future.
So if you catch yourself feeling like there's an identity crisis because you are the kind
of person who always procrastinates, who always struggles, great.
Now you have the chance of an awesome comment.
back story and not have to be part of your future. I'm telling you your mistakes
are amazing potential for you. They are an absolute gem because they give you
so much room to improve. And that's what life is actually all about.
Progression over time. Success. The actual definition of it I stole from Earl Nightingale
from years ago is that success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal,
meaning you are striving to improve on things that matter to you.
And so if you struggle, if you have procrastinated, you have performed poorly,
you have the chance to turn this thing around.
You can, you should, you'll be better for it.
So the answer to this question is actually the same as it is to the first,
meaning that the process to get work done is the same,
whether you're behind schedule or not.
When you work on your highest priorities and you have possibly missed deadlines,
Well, that simply means your most important tasks are the ones that will get you caught back up first.
So it's the same principle as, let's say, paying off debt when you've missed payments.
Well, you pay off the latest and most expensive debts before all the others.
If you're always working on what is most important in the moment, you won't have to fear what's coming next because it's just the next most important task.
So once again, this question of refocusing when you've already made mistakes is a phenomenal one.
And it is an absolute gem for your real world experience.
And of course, in school to be able to turn your, let's say, C average into a B plus or A average, right?
To be able to say, I used to be person X and now I'm person Y.
And that all comes from skills, from discipline, from focus, all of these things you have the ability to work on and improve.
So if your goal is to be a more productive student, you have ample opportunity
to do so.
There is so much out there to have you actually excel in your classes and use that
knowledge and use those, the potential that's there to then apply it to the real
world afterwards.
And let's discuss that one more time, but from a different angle.
The question of what does it mean then to be truly productive as a college student
or as a student in general?
Well, the answer will depend on your long-term goals and depend on what the real world will look like for you, especially right afterwards.
So, for example, if your plan is to apply to graduate school and attend that right after undergrad, then your grades and your GPA do have a lot of value.
I would love to say that GPA is not important and being a valedictorian is actually silly.
Technically, I misspoke.
Yes, it can be valuable if your goal is to go to a very competitive school.
yes, grades matter a great deal, and you will have to excel in that manner.
If you don't, you might have to change your plans up to school.
But for the most part, there's a lot of wiggle room when it comes to resumes,
and grades are just one aspect of that.
So don't fret if your grades aren't stellar.
The second possibility is you're going to finish school and go into the workforce
and apply for jobs.
In this case, your grades will matter very much.
Very little. That's right. Possibly not at all. When I left school, I applied for lots of random jobs. I did all kinds of different work for all kinds of different companies around the country. And not a single person cared about my GPA. When I left school, granted, I was applying for jobs that maybe didn't quite value that as much. But at the same time, having a college degree was the checkmark they were looking for. There was no checkmark for GPA. There was no
competitive nature for the work that I was applying for. Now, this is dependent on
what you choose to do. There are jobs out there where they will pick and choose on
this, but if that's the case, you probably already know it and you probably
already have a life built to work towards that goal. If you don't know it,
it probably doesn't matter and your grades probably don't play into your future
success. I know it's a hard one, a hard pill to swallow because it's just, that's what's
drilled in is get the best grade all the time. And I'm telling you, for the most
part, for most people, in most scenarios, you can calm down. It's not going to matter.
Now, if you finish school and you're not going to grad school, you're not going to
the workforce directly, you might pursue other non-academic pursuits. It might have
included military service or other things you might want to do. There's a strong
possibility your grades matter zero, like literally not at all. And so, in this whole hierarchy
of grad school, workforce, or other pursuits to go after, there's a lot that
depends on where you are headed as to what school and the grades you get
mean to you and what being productive means to you.
And so having said that, knowing that there's a lot of flexibility and there's a lot
of potential for things to matter or not, this is all up to you.
Your experience, you're a level of stress, your level of productivity, how much
energy you choose to put into it, the kind of person you view yourself as.
I view myself as a high achiever as an A student as the kind of person who's
going to push the boundaries.
I still view myself as that person today.
And yet, I'll be the first to tell you that there are things I absolutely wasted
my time caring about.
I was stressed about things that were literally pointless.
And that's why I want you to avoid.
You can stress about things that are important, but not.
things that don't matter. Let's be a little more selective on where our energy
flows. And even when I say you can be stressed, that's even silly itself.
Why is this even part of the equation? The real question is, like, what do you want?
And how do you want to achieve it? What life do you want to live? How do you want it to be
structured? Map that out. Make an ideal week, an ideal life. Plan out what you think
an awesome day looks like and then go make that possible. Make it happen. Live that out.
Without this kind of preconceived notion of what you're supposed to be doing or what society claims to be important or the bubble of academia says matters.
Challenge that.
Be your own person.
Carve your own path.
Because you definitely don't want to just fall in line just to find yourself miserable.
I chose intentionally to be an entrepreneur over 10 years ago because I just couldn't handle the monotony of what the real world told me to do.
So now I do my own thing.
Now, that's my choice.
You may have a different path, but your productivity as a student is going to be a foundation for you for all the other things you will do down the road.
And so start now making your own choices.
Start now identifying what you value and how your life will then play out and really exemplify those values.
Okay, I think my rant is done for the week.
This one really got me fired up.
So Kenzie Johnson, thank you very much for this amazing email and chance to dig into this content.
This was what I needed personally to get off my chest.
And so I'm glad that I did if you found what I said to be helpful or obnoxious or totally off base or amazing.
Whatever your thoughts are, email me, jeff at jeffsanders.com.
I would love to hear your thoughts on what you think all of this means.
I mean, my wife is a professor at university here in Nashville.
So like we are in the academic world.
This is very personal for us here at the 5A Miracle Studios.
And so we care about this.
So if you care, once again, email me, jeffat jeffsanders.com.
And for the action step this week.
Define your goals as a student and adjust accordingly.
There is no reason to take the common path if your path is not common.
phrase another way. Don't get too hung up on being productive or acing all of your classes.
The pressure to perform is actually dangerous and often fruitless.
So do what matters. Skip the rest.
Now, of course, subscribe to this podcast in your favorite podcast app or become a VIP member of the 5 a.m. Miracle Community by getting the premium ad-free version with exclusive bonus episodes at 5am Miracle Premium.com.
That's all I've got for you here on the 5 a.m. Miracle podcast this week.
Until next time, you have the power to change your life.
And all that fun begins bright and early.
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