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The Renaissance Man: A Celebration of Intermediacy
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| If I have the instinct for greatness, what is my actual expertise? How does an intermediate person become great? |
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Lesson #5: Go With Your Gut
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| “Experience taught me a few things,” says Trump. “One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.” |
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Lesson #4: Take Control
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| “I don't like formal gardens,” said Disney. “I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess." Despite his apparent disregard for structure, Disney was a hands-on entrepreneur, who enjoyed taking control over all aspects of his company. While it was in part personality-driven, Disney’s hands-on nature was also due to a lesson he learned the hard way early on in his career. |
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Walt Disney Quotes
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Lillian Vernon Quotes
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Michael Dell Quotes
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| Michael Dell Quotes |
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Lesson #1: The Reward is Worth the Risk
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| “I'm an entrepreneur,” says McMahon. “I take chances in life…I got balls the size of grapefruits!” |
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Lesson #5: Think Of It As A Game Of Poker
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| “You know, in life you always have to give yourself some sort of challenge,” says Laliberté, “and for me the game of poker, because of the mathematics, the personality aspect of it, I feel very comfortable in it. It's a great experience.” |
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Living On The Edge: How Gillette Achieved Success
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| “As I stood there with the razor in my hand, my eyes resting on it as lightly as a bird settling down on its nest, the Gillette razor was born,” said Gillette. “In that moment I saw it all: the way the blade could be held in a holder; the idea of sharpening the two opposite edges on the thin piece of steel; the clamping plates, with a handle halfway between the two edges of the blade.” |
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The Power of Pokemon: How Tajiri Took the Bugs Out of Success
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| According to some reports, Tajiri has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a disease that shows itself in the form of social awkwardness and public clumsiness, among other things. Despite this, he has managed to become one of the most beloved and successful video game designers in history. How did he do it? |
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Lesson #3: Listen to Your Gut Feeling of Gold
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| Maybe it was smarts, or maybe it was pure stubbornness, but when Hall set his mind on doing something, he followed through. And, much to the chagrin of those who invariably advised him against it, it in turn invariable worked. |
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Leaving His Mark: How Hall Manufactured Success
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| "All I was trying to do was make a living," Hall once said. "In those days, if you didn't work, you didn't eat. And I like to eat." |
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Creating a String of Blockbusters: How Huizenga Achieved Success
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| “My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything,” Huizenga once said. “You have to be an entrepreneur.”
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Look for the Loose Brick
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| I hear salespeople say that speaking to a particular prospect was like "hitting a brick wall." The prospect's guard was up in full force. The prospect seemed to get bored or, worse yet, to actually become defensive or offensive, as the case may be, every time the salesperson mentioned a product benefit or feature. It pains me to hear this, as I've known exactly what it feels like to be in such a position. |
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The intuition vs. analysis conundrum
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| Let's say you've got a really good idea. And you've had good ideas before.
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Guerrilla Learning
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| Let's start with the bad news. Much that you have learned in the past, although God's own truth at the time, has changed, leaving you misinformed or uninformed, so that a lot of what you know is wrong. In social situations, your lack of information is inconvenient, but in business, it's suicidal. |
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The Higher Power of Intuition
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| Have you ever had a "gut" feeling and not listened? Most likely it cost you "big time." Ours is a culture that has not yet given full credence to the inherent wisdom of our spiritual nature. The fact is we have a source of intelligence within us that most of us seldom use; it's known as our intuition. Intuition is a sixth sense that seems directly connected to the creative intelligence of the Universe. |
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The Art of Negotiation
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| Negotiating is an art. There are nuances and finely honed techniques and rules to be aware of. Here are a few of them: |
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The Coming U.S. Crackup
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| Clive Crook on something that has been on many people's minds lately, the sense of a coming U.S. crackup: |
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What to Do When You’re Asked to Stage a Filthy House
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| The Staging Diva®, advises home stagers on what to do when they find themselves being asked to stage an absolutely filthy home. |
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Is Mike Morgan's Home Based Internet Marketing Business a Scam?
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| How can you tell if the home based internet marketing business you are looking at is a legitimate internet business or one of the many scams you will find online? There are a few fairly easy signs to spot which will identify a legitimate business opportunity. Simply searching the company name and scam will probably not give you anything helpful to base your judgement on. |
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Self-Coaching Tip: Focus on the Energy of Your Intentions
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| Years ago, in a staff meeting, Martha described all the obstacles and setbacks her team had encountered while starting a new project. She was frustrated and tired. Her energy was low. Soon, everyone in the room was tense, shooting down ideas and suggestions, frustrated by our own inability to find a creative solution to the stalled project. |
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Due Diligence - An Overview
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| The author, John Franczyk, presents a summary of the areas that should be reviewed during a due diligence review of a contracting counterpart. |
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The Law of Attraction-The Secret of your Business
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| Have you ever wondered why certain people attract a following while you struggle holding someone's gaze for more than a few seconds? Even the guy who isn't powerful has no money can attract glamorous women and you wonder why. Why do rock-stars have crowds around them anxious to become part of their social circle and even the guy or girl who is associated with these people becomes an attraction for other people? The answer is simple. Welcome to the law of attraction. The interesting fact about this is that attraction in not a choice. It is an instinct.
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A Checklist for Staffing Up
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| A Checklist for Staffing Up -
When you are looking to hire staff, you need to hire the right staff quickly, otherwise you'll be burdened with wasted time and expense. In this article, you'll read about a checklist of 4 qualities you need to ensure that every new-hire posses if they are going to help you grow your business. Three of them won't come as a surprise, and will serve a good reminder, while the fourth might be a quality you never considered to be necessary. Make sure that you review every resume and perform every interview with these 4 qualities in mind.
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Entrepreneurs Instinctively Find Solutions for Business Issues
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| Some people are born with a "take charge" attitude, others develop it over time. But all entrepreneurs, natural born or developed, instinctively choose a solutions based approach to problem solving. |
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I Live by a Simple Philosophy Which Helped me Become Successful!
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| What is the secret to success? Why are so many people struggling with the idea that success is simple. If you really want to know what the secret to success is free your mind of any former ideas and open your thought process to the fact that success is not actually that difficult, in fact my simple philosophy can help you attain your goal. |
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The Cost of Lost Sales
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| Accurate inventory stocking according to demand and sales history is vital to reducing lost sales and inventory overhead, thereby increasing profit, customer satisfaction, and loyalty. |
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There's a new breed out there
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| Is it just me, or does there seem to be a new breed of people out there – I’m noticing them when I’m driving around. Several times over the last few months, I’ve had people crossing the road when my car is coming quickly towards them. |
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Leadership Development - A Strategic Need?
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| Leadership development budgets, that are based on only good intentions and general ideas about leadership, get axed in bad times and get extravagant during good times. If having great or good leaders at all levels is a strategic need, as the above top companies demonstrate and as many leading management experts assert, why do we see such a stop and go approach? |
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Learn How to Be Happy
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| An article of 1198 words explaining how the path to happiness is to identify and eliminate the things that feel bad and identify and include the things that feel good |
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Winning Recognition
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| This is a story on how Alan Kaplan won recognition early on when he set out on his own. |
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Professional Selling
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| Professional selling is the difference between preparation and improvisation.
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The 7 Most Effective Ways to Recruit, Retain and Motivate Your Youngest Generation
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| How to make your organization more productive |
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Turning the habit of self-criticism upside down
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| Perhaps this sounds familiar:
When it's time to write a resume or talk to a boss or discuss a project glitch with colleagues, the instinct is to spin, to avoid a little responsibility, to sit quietly. Put a best face forward, don't set yourself up. |
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What’s up with Personal Branding, and why you should consider it
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| In recent years, the concept of personal branding has been getting more and more attention. The basic premise of this is that over the course of your career, you would benefit from creating “Brand You” as a way to differentiate yourself from other jobseekers, business developers, vendors, and people in general. |
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How To Handle Disgruntled Customers
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| In any business situation, it is never easy to please every customer. Even with a mass-selling product and a great team of customer service individuals, you will always encounter one customer whom you cannot please. |
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Productivity through Chocolate Reflections
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| So there I sat, staring at the candy and trying not to open the first one. (My will power diminishes after eating one.) Of course, I gave in and ate my first one.
I was surprised to see that on the inside of every wrapper are little messages. It is like a chocolate fortune cookie! With every one I opened, I found another productivity thought.
"Get Your Feet Massaged"
Now doesn't that sound wonderful? Chocolate and a massage! But there is a productivity thought here. So many of us work and work and never take time out to recharge. That is what this message is telling us. |
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How Dealing with Difficult People affects you?
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| The difficult person is someone we simply have to deal with. In those situations, we have three options. These options are: 1) Try to change ourselves, 2) Try to change the other person, and 3) Resolve to tolerate the situation – basically decide to put up with them. |
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Selling Scripts That Work
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| Selling scripts are the one thing most salespeople shy away from. There's a big difference between sounding canned and being prepared. Learn six selling tips you can use to prepare your opening statement when calling your sales prospects.
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Find the Right Coach for You
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| Preparation and research are the first steps to finding the best coach for you. Here's a step by step guide to get ready for your search. |
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THINKING ABOUT THINKING
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| Thoughts and actions which are allowed to flow without being considered lead us to instinctual behaviour where we repeat the same actions, and often the same mistakes, as the past. |
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How not to abandon your e-procurement initiative
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| MARK HENRICKS' ARTICLE "Flaw and Order" (Entrepreneur Magazine, September 2004) referenced a behavioral economics study that identified the eight hidden strategy flaws frequently championed by corporate decisionmakers. The sunk-cost effect - based on the premise of throwing good money after bad - and the herding instinct are the two that seem to relate specifically to the challenges associated with e-procurement initiatives. |
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Aikido and The Art of Selling
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| Imagine being in a crowded concert or bar. All of a sudden, a fight breaks out between two men who’ve had too much to drink. |
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The Opportunity of Conflict
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| You will feel better about your professional role and see greater accomplishments. Here are several areas in which you can reconsider the role of conflict and apply different approaches to it. |
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FIVE TIPS FOR DEALING WITH CRITICISM OR REJECTION AT WORK
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| Everyone who has been employed has had to deal with negative feedback or rejection. Because we tend to merge our identities with our career, it can be a personal blow to our self-esteem when we are criticized at work. Whether it’s a job rejection, poor performance appraisal, or office gossip, it doesn’t usually bring out our best side. |
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FIVE TIPS FOR DEALING WITH CRITICISM OR REJECTION AT WORK
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| Everyone who has been employed has had to deal with negative feedback or rejection. Because we tend to merge our identities with our career, it can be a personal blow to our self-esteem when we are criticized at work. Whether it’s a job rejection, poor performance appraisal, or office gossip, it doesn’t usually bring out our best side. |
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FIVE TIPS FOR DEALING WITH CRITICISM OR REJECTION AT WORK
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| Everyone who has been employed has had to deal with negative feedback or rejection. Because we tend to merge our identities with our career, it can be a personal blow to our self-esteem when we are criticized at work. Whether it’s a job rejection, poor performance appraisal, or office gossip, it doesn’t usually bring out our best side. |
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Upgraded Your Decision Making Skills
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| Are you a quick-to-act person? Or do you take weeks waffling about a decision? Have you ever wished you had requested or sought more information before you made a decision? Can you think of a situation where you had to hurriedly make a decision? |
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Other instinct Related Articles
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Getting Ahead and Defining Your Space - The Office
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| Many people want to know how to get recognized and known within an organization. They want their boss and their co-workers to take notice of them. A couple of days ago I watched a Science Channel program about wolves and I saw connections that combined attributes at work with wolf instinct. |
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Lesson #5: There is No Greater Good Than Your Gut
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| Huizenga was able to achieve the success that he did because he loved what he was doing. He loved being able to take an idea and try to sell others on it to make it happen. But what was behind Huizenga’s confidence in those ideas? What made him believe so strongly that they would work when others might have already tried the same thing and failed? The answer is quite simply, gut instinct. |
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What's Leadership?
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| It is a natural instinct to want to be a leader yet so many people have no idea what is required to be one. As they climb the ladder of success they feel they are leaders and have the demeanor requiring being followed without earning it. Rank has it’s privilege but not in the hearts of men and so conformity is through duty. |
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The Renaissance Man: A Celebration of Intermediacy
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| If I have the instinct for greatness, what is my actual expertise? How does an intermediate person become great? |
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That Zero Gravity Instinct
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| Does your business have that Zero Gravity instinct for growth. |
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How Four Variations Influence Sales and The Way People Make Decisions
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| When people comment on sales assessment tools, they generally d raw from one of the following arenas, their Opinions, Experiences, Gut Instinct, or Science. So which is right? |
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Fight or Flight: It’s Now Optional
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| The Fight or Flight response was an important gauge of threat and a vital survival tool for the cavemen over a million years ago. This primitive instinct is still present in all of us, even though, it doesn’t carry the same function in the 21st century. Through specific steps, we can learn to manage this instinct to our advantage. If managed successfully, the Fight or Flight instinct can become an important tool in overcoming stress and daily pressures. |
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Turning the habit of self-criticism upside down
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| Perhaps this sounds familiar:
When it's time to write a resume or talk to a boss or discuss a project glitch with colleagues, the instinct is to spin, to avoid a little responsibility, to sit quietly. Put a best face forward, don't set yourself up. |
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Do You Have a Broken Heart and an Empty Wallet?
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| In your leadership role, yes we are all leaders in some way, lead yourself first. Stand by your ethics and what you know is right first. Then look to guide and lead others. When you seek guidance and advice, trust your gut instinct. Do you feel right about this person or this company? |
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CMO.com | Study Finds Marketers Don\'t Practice ROI They Preach
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| Too many CMOs are relying on gut instinct rather than data |
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