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BONUS PART 2: On endings and beginnings [Free audiobook sample] Aug 22, 2022

To end the podcast, host Madeleine Dore takes us back to the beginning and shares a free sample from the audio version of I Didn't Do The Thing Today.

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BONUS PART 1: On endings and beginnings Aug 14, 2022

Host Madeleine Dore shares reflections on ending her labour of love, and introduces a new beginning.

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On the antidote to being afraid of the work Feb 20, 2022

In this final episode of season three, Madeleine explores the fear behind perfectionism — and how often the only antidote to being afraid of the work, is to do the work.

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On writing, publishing, and the snowball of courage Jan 25, 2022

In this special episode, Madeleine answers all your questions on writing and publishing a book — with answers exploring themes such as courage, process, and patience that are relevant to any project or endeavour.

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On ten lessons for self-doubt (and life) Jan 09, 2022

In this week's quandary, Madeleine answers her own quandary! Upon the release of her first book, Madeleine offers herself some timely advice for addressing self-doubt when putting something into the world—which is advice that also doubles as advice for living.

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On asking: what if nothing changes? Dec 30, 2021

This week's quandary is all about making and sticking to resolutions—and why it might be more worthwhile to expand ourselves, rather than fixate on changing ourselves.
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On feeling guilty for resting when there's still more to do Dec 22, 2021

This week's quandary is about how to know when you need to go easy on yourself and rest, and when you need to push through complacency to get things done.
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On being consistently inconsistent Dec 14, 2021

This week's quandary is about being inconsistent. Madeleine shares how she embraced one of her biggest productivity-guilt stumbling blocks.
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On moving out of the indecision spiral Dec 06, 2021

This week's quandary is about how to make a decision when you're caught in a yes/no spiral. Madeleine unpacks the standstill of indecision, how to handle the regret we can feel, and mixes many metaphors!

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On overcoming the hesitation behind asking "how" Nov 29, 2021

This week's quandary is several in one: how to know if something is good enough, how to determine your life purpose, and how to know where to start. Madeleine unpacks the hesitation behind asking how, so you can overcome it and step into the moment in front of you.
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Season 3: Introducing productivity-guilt therapy(ish) Nov 21, 2021

It's been a minute! To introduce season three, host Madeleine Dore reflects on disappearing for a while to write her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today.

Also, to delve further into the lessons on letting go of productivity guilt, this season Madeleine will be dishing up counterintuitive lessons in the hope that it can lead you to figuring out your own needs, patterns, and way of doing things

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Wrap episode: Lessons on wobbling and modulating Dec 31, 2020

The lessons from this podcast are now compiled in the book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today. To stay in the loop, sign up to the Madeleine Dore—On Things newsletter.

Previous episodes mentioned:

Period preacher' Lucy Peach talked about the connection, creativity and truth in the menstrual cycle
Academic and author of Sand Talk Tyson Yunkaporta shared thoughts on how time, routine and patterns
Self-taught astronemer Greg Quicke on the cycles of the universe
Writer Kylie Maslen on likening living with invisible illness to watching the storm
Author and psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel on the ebb and flow of emotions
Writer and activist Sarah Wilson spoke about on tilting and modulating over finding balance

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R&R mini: On the beauty in the break Dec 05, 2020

The final episode for season three asks, how do we find the beauty in the break and determine our preference for rest?

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Annie Raser Rowland on frugal hedonism and living more creatively with less Nov 30, 2020

“Frugal hedonism is partly about noticing when less is more, and that applies to activity just as much as in the realm of consumption.” – Annie Raser Rowland

Artist, horticulturalist and co-author of The Art of Frugal Hedonism talks about creating a life less dependent on the comforts of consumption and more focussed on extracting maximum pleasure from the most essential parts of being human.

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R&R mini: On 'puddle theory' and how to do things you're putting off Nov 27, 2020

In this mini episode, Madeleine shares her trusted "puddle theory" to help with overwhelm.
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel on emotions, types of shame, and slowing down Nov 22, 2020

“Ultimately the goal is to communicate our wants, needs, fears and boundaries confidently and effectively.” – Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Psychotherapist and author Hilary Jacobs Hendel talks about the importance of emotional education to help us connect to each other and ourselves.
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R&R mini: On ruminating and worrying about what people think Nov 22, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, how do we spend less time ruminating and worrying about what other think?

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Greg Quicke on the life lessons we find in the cosmos Nov 15, 2020

Self-taught bush astronomer and author of Is The Moon Upside Down? Greg Quicke talks about the powerful lessons for everyday life we can find in the cosmos.

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R&R mini: On the practice of saying no Nov 14, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, how do we learn to ask generously and say no kindly?

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Kylie Maslen on invisible illness, boundaries and shared understanding Nov 08, 2020

Author of Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness Kylie Maslen discusses how creating a shared understanding of someone’s day to day can help break down the barriers between the well and unwell.

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R&R mini: On allowing for distraction Nov 07, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, how do allow both attention and distraction into our days?

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Tyson Yunkaporta on how creativity is inseparable from life Nov 02, 2020

Author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta speaks to how when we reduce creativity to a marketplace, we overlook how we are all creative.

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R&R mini: On letting go and how to survey your 'shoulds' Oct 31, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, how do we let go of what we think we 'should' be doing?

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Pandora Sykes on finding the rightful, good enough life Oct 25, 2020

Pandora Sykes is a writer, journalist and broadcaster—but as she shares in this conversation, she’s a gatherer. We speak about how smaller worries can sometimes feel the biggest, how we can be driven by feelings like guilt and envy rather than feel stifled, satisficing, arrival fallacy, healthy boredom, tick-boxing and finding our own version of what what is rightful, rather than right.
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R&R mini: On indecision and the fear of better options Oct 25, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, how can we get out of the indecision spiral?

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Sarah Wilson on showing up, going to your edge, and living an enlarged life Oct 18, 2020

Sarah Wilson is a former journalist and TV presenter, best-selling author and activist, whose latest book This One Wild and Precious Life explores how vital individual change is in a world demanding more of us

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R&R mini: On empty time and not feeling crammed Oct 16, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, can empty time be a gift—and can we find it in a crammed life?

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Kemi Nekvapil on defining your own relationship to routine and diminishing self-judgement Oct 11, 2020

From working as a baker and a chef, to an actor and yoga teacher across the globe, Kemi Nekvapil has lived many lives. Now as a credentialed life coach, a speaker and author of The Gift of Asking and host of The Shift Series short form podcast, she credits exploring various career paths as helping draw her own definition of success and how she spends her time.

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R&R mini: On letting your pile of good things grow Oct 08, 2020

This week's mini episode asks, can a small good thing help with overwhelm?

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Lucy Peach on the connection, creativity and truth in our cycles Oct 04, 2020

We live in a linear world – with linear schedules, and linear expectations of our energy, or our time, our bodies. But what if we don’t move throughout our days in straight lines, but rather ebb and flow in cycles?

In this conversation, author of Period Queen, Lucy Peach delves into cycle amnesia, period shame, truth bombs, post-project blues, freelancing, and giving yourself permission to both finish and begin.

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R&R mini: On doing your thing Sep 30, 2020

This week's mini episode explores the different types of doing – and what gets in the way of doing our thing.

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Hugh Mackay on where we hide and compassionate love as a daily discipline Sep 27, 2020

Why do we sometimes hide from our selves, and where are we hiding?

In his latest book The Inner Self, social researcher Hugh Mackay explores our top twenty hiding places, including busyness, perfectionism, guilt, ambition, work and even the pursuit of happiness.

In this conversation, we talk about how creativity can narrow the gap between who we pretend to be or hide, and who we really are.

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Season 2: What replenishes you? Sep 14, 2020

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Ingrid Fetell Lee on how to find joy right where you are May 24, 2020

We often hear that emotions such as joy are cultivated within, but for designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, there is a strong possibility that it can be found in our surroundings.
In this conversation, we talk about the aspects of joy that are challenged now but why it’s more valuable than ever, finding ways to zoom out, the relationship between joy and resilience, planning what’s important but giving yourself permission to be flexible, why sometimes we just aren’t ready yet, surprise, and allowing for the rise and fall of joy and sorrow.

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Matthew Evans on creative lessons from farming and cooking May 17, 2020

Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, turned Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur, food activist and star of the SBS television series Gourmet Farmer alongside his family.

We talk about what happens when productive work loses its meaning, daily life on the farm and how there is always more to do, accepting your limitations, how being behind is inevitable and mostly a good sign, the beauty of boredom, and how sometimes you have to launch in to avoid getting stuck in a research phase or perfectionism.

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Creativity in a pandemic: There is no one way May 10, 2020

There is no one way to navigate a pandemic. This routine-collage and slice of creative life during COVID-19 showcases these differences as well as unifying reflections.
Bringing together over 60 difference perspectives – from dozens of listeners and more than thirty artists and creatives I’ve previously interviewed – you can hear how other people are coping, their routines and their ruts, and maybe feel less alone in your own.

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Kira Puru on gentle routines, frugality and making mistakes May 03, 2020

Performer, photographer, visual artist, DJ and vocal powerhouse Kira Puru discusses mental health, navigating the logistics of living through a pandemic and sometimes curling up like an armadillo, giving yourself leeway to be overwhelmed, balancing the artistic and the political, frugality, mistakes and that tension between leaning towards chaos and leaning into routine.
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Kylie Lewis on finding new routines, self-compassion and collective vulnerability Apr 19, 2020

In this conversation, coach and consultant Kylie Lewis talks about navigating our days imperfectly, how it’s normal to have ‘horizontal days, taking it one moment at a time, self-compassion, collective vulnerability, boundaries during this time, comparison, and aiming for enough.
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Luke Currie-Richardson on creating your own measures for your day, career, and life Apr 12, 2020

In Luke Currie-Richardson's own words, he may not know what he does for a living, but he knows why he wake up in the morning.

In this conversation, Luke delves further into this idea of it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it, navigating the loss of work during this time, his thoughts on routine being more about priority than rigid structures, the toxicity of sayings like “the show must go on” and “fake it till you make it,” the power of asking for help and taking care of your mental health, and knowing when to walk away from something.
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Sarah Jane Adams on inevitable uncertainty, self-sabotage and joy Apr 05, 2020

Sarah Jane Adams is a self-made antique jewellery dealer, designer and became an international model in her sixties, responsible for the #mywrinklesaremystripes social media movement celebrating the beauty in ageing.
We talk about how her daily life resembles a sliding tile puzzle toy, how there is no such thing as certainty, being a misfit, living with openness and joy, solitude, self-sabotage and pressing the reset button.

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Jai Long on being intentional over busy, letting go, and recognising privilege Mar 29, 2020

Jai Long is a photographer, educator and creative entrepreneur. We talk about being impactful rather than busy, how we are all wired differently, not putting your spark out for other people, the complicated relationship between money and the idea of designing your life, failure, fear, and so much more.

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Samuel Leighton-Dore on a tiered routine, toxic masculinity and detaching from creative success Mar 22, 2020

Gold coast based artist Samuel Leighton-Dore is a satirical cartoonist, a painter, ceramic artist, filmmaker, a regular contributor for SBS Sexuality and author of the graphic novel 'How to be a big strong man'.

In this conversation, Samuel share his three-tiered approach to balancing various projects, the little things you can do to feel more disciplined working from home, toxic masculinity, the connection between ambition and depression, failure, untangling your identity from creative success.

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Beci Orpin on the upsides of busyness, freelancing and resilience Mar 15, 2020

Beci Orpin does her best work when she is busy, With a creative career spanning more than twenty years, the Melbourne designer, artist, and illustrator has left her colourful fingerprint on countless projects, from books and homewares, to regular art exhibitions, and collaborations with celebrated brands.

In this interview, we talk about how she gets so much done, personal projects, the precarious nature of freelancing, money, emailing, family, criticism and resilience.

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Pip Lincolne on heartbreak, wobbly routines and solitude Mar 08, 2020

Prioritsing yourself isn't selfish, says writer, crafter and blogger behind Meet Me At Mikes, Pip Lincolne – but it sure can be difficult.

In this conversation, Pip opens up about the difficult period she faced after the end of a 23-year-relationship – and the book it has since inspired, When Life Is Not Peachy. We delve into winding and twisting path Pip took to a creative career and writing books after she left high school in year eleven, but also feeling like an outsider, parenting and creativity, falling back into yourself, wobbly routines, social media and success, fitting in writing around a day job, solitude and resilience.

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Annie Louey on building a career in comedy and finding motivation within yourself Mar 01, 2020

Annie Louey is a fresh comedic talent who putting it all into her career and immersing herself in the world of presenting and comedy.
In this episode, we talk about how to step into being an artist even when you don’t feel ready, the importance of preparation, setting targets in our career, imposter syndrome freelancing routines, how admin is the key part of creative careers bike riding and how to find motivation within yourself.
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Oliver Burkeman on embracing limitations, stale goals, and unclenching from routine Feb 23, 2020

This week's guest has spent the last few years delving into the topic of limitations through researching and writing his latest book on time.

Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist living in Brooklyn. He writes a popular weekly column for The Guardian on social psychology, productivity and the science of happiness, called This Column Will Change Your Life and is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.

In this conversation, we delve into how he has moved through a rut from the book writing process, how goals can become redundant very quickly, the Kanban method, self-control and distraction, parenting, shadow working, insomnia, the difficulty of doing nothing and how we can get out of a rut by breaking our own rules.

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Tina Essmaker on not knowing what's next Feb 16, 2020

Tina Essmaker is a coach, writer and speaker and in early 2017, she had the opportunity to reimagine career and her four burners when she transitioned out of the The Great Discontent, a publication she started with her former husband and business partner.

She took what she describes as a gap year to figure out what she wanted to next and eventually returned to her roots as a social worker, now helping the creative community to navigate uncertainty and take action on their ideas.

In this conversation we speak about why we sometimes flail when we don’t have constraints in our days and careers, the dance between scheduling and spontaneity, chunking tasks in your week, finding space for yourself after a divorce and what can help when you’re dealing with a period of change, hurt or uncertainty.

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Lauren Martin on feeling lost, and finding comfort in the words of women Feb 09, 2020

Lauren Martin is a writer and the founder of Words Of Women, a labour of love she started when she was searching for something to help herself and other women who were feeling lost.

In this episode, Lauren delves into the intricacies of self-initiated work and the thoughtful process behind writing and curating her popular newsletter, blog and Instagram account.

We talk about flat days and good days, social isolation, how routine helps when you’re in a rut, comparison, the tension between being a night-owl but being clearest in the morning, as well as how personal projects can buoy us.

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Vanessa Marian on embracing failure and being a lifelong learner Feb 02, 2020

Dancer and movement director Vanessa Marian Varghese describes her career as a succession of failures – trying to start an online homewares store and failing, trying to be an art director and failing. Finishing a law degree but not wanting to pursue it.

But when she didn’t know what she was going to do with her life, she took a dance class and learned something. Now, that curiosity and learning has blossomed into a career in dance and thriving business, Groove Therapy.
We talk about how the secret to life is being a student, allowing business and ideas to grow without pushing, going easy on yourself with your daily habits and finding the beauty in faffing.
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Ryder Carroll on intention over productivity Jan 26, 2020

As John Lennon put it, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

As a loyal proponent of the Bullet Journal, I've seen first hand how the immensely popular analog system goes far beyond planning and teaches you to be more intentional with list-making – and life.

If there is one person who understands intentionality beyond our plans it’s this week’s guest. Ryder Carroll is an author, digital product designer, and inventor of the Bullet Journal method.

In this conversation, Ryder discusses empty goals and starting with the small ‘whys’, how journaling can help us capture and see patterns in work and life, creating your own structure as a freelancer and independent creative and more.

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Special thanks to: Nelson Dore for the theme music, Scott Stronach for editing, Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

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Amanda Palmer on blanket compassion, rest and redefining success Jan 19, 2020

This week’s guest is unquestionable gifted in an astonishing array of disciplines – Amanda Palmer is a singer, songwriter, filmmaker, playwright, pianist, author, director, blogger and ukulele enthusiast.

It’s easy to compile Palmer’s successes and accredit it all to a perfect, productive creative schedule. But the as Amanda freely admits, there was a time when her relationship with productivity was punishing.

In this episode, Amanda talks about how we can crush progress with perfection both as a culture, and as individuals. We talk about reframing and resizing your suffering, why we need blanket compassion, the importance of sleep, parenting and creative routines, setting boundaries, pausing projects, and finding your own internal measures for success.

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Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or buy the companion book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today.

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Adriana Picker on burnout and mundane self-care practices Jan 12, 2020

Adriana Picker has a career many illustrators would pine for – she’s illustrated four books, held numerous exhibitions of her illustrations and paintings, and her list of clients includes Vogue, Gourmet Traveller, Mecca Cosmetics, and T2.

Despite the impressive bio and dream projects, Adriana opens up about a particular variety of creative rut that can be spurred on by doing the thing you love to a point of exhaustion.

Adriana is candid about the privileges and pitfalls of working on dream projects – and shares how she had to return to the mundane, ordinary, basic elements of self-care to rebuild after burnout.

We talk about the book writing process, seasonal routines, saying no, productive rest, and whether you’re in the ebb or the flow, the winter-fallow or the blossoming spring – it’s all relevant and important to the creative process.

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Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or buy the companion book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today.

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Benjamin Law on time optimism and managing post-project blues Jan 05, 2020

Benjamin Law is an expert in shifting gears. While he credits his colour-coded iCal for his time-management prowess, after our conversation, I’m convinced his curiosity and energy plays an important role in making Ben one of Australia’s most prolific and beloved writers.

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Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or buy the companion book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today.

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Clare Bowditch on patience, book writing and ambition Dec 29, 2019

In this debut episode of Routines & Ruts, Clare Bowditch discusses taking it one step at a time, the book writing process, and how letting go can bring us the most extraordinary experiences.

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Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or buy the companion book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today.

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Introducing Routines & Ruts Dec 15, 2019

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