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Follow These 7 Simple Steps to Get Anything You Want In Life

8:381,278 summary words · ~6 min readEnglishBy Tony RobbinsTranscribed Sep 27, 2026

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Summary

Achieving any major life goal requires working through a continuous seven-step loop: defining desired outcomes and deep motives, confronting the brutal reality of past obstacles, executing an immediate 80/20 action plan, mastering internal resistance, establishing daily disciplines, measuring frequently to raise standards, and celebrating progress before leveling up.

Most personal and professional initiatives stall because people dwell on what they don't want, delay execution for a nonexistent perfect plan, or fail to measure performance frequently enough to correct course before months or years are lost.

Section summaries

Step 1: Establishing Outcome Clarity and Emotional Fuel

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Tony introduces his seven-step framework and focuses on the prerequisite for entering the growth path: knowing exactly what you want and why you want it. He warns against dwelling on what is unwanted, calling clarity ultimate power. When individuals claim they do not know what they want, he introduces an inversion exercise: writing down the job or relationship from hell. This leverages the natural energy of frustration to get ideas moving on paper.

Focusing on what you do not want generates zero forward progress.
Your 'why' is the emotional fuel that sustains action when execution becomes uncomfortable.
Listing extreme negative scenarios unlocks expressive flow when feeling stuck.

Crucial foundational step that diagnoses why people fail to set viable goals.

Overcoming Mental Paralysis and Negative Conditioning

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Robbins details how to convert negative lists into clear positive goals by writing the exact opposite of each hellish scenario. He emphasizes changing physical state and physiology when feeling mentally stuck. Repeating the phrase 'I don't know' conditions the brain into real blindness and indecision. Step one concludes with a diagnostic test: unless a person has clear outcomes backed by strong reasons, they have not even begun the path.

Inverting a detailed list of what you hate reveals your ideal target.
Repeatedly saying 'I don't know' conditions the subconscious to stay blind.
Physical movement and state changes break cognitive stagnation.

Offers an actionable diagnostic tool to bypass decision fatigue and self-limiting statements.

Step 2: Facing the Truth and Diagnosing the Gap

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The second step demands rigorous honesty regarding the gap between current reality and the ultimate goal. Robbins explains that closing this gap requires unmasking what obstructed past efforts. Obstacles generally fall into emotional blocks, limiting beliefs, habitual patterns, or mechanical skill deficits. Beliefs are dissected as combinations of focus, language, and physiology that can be systematically re-engineered.

Improvement starts by explicitly defining the gap between current standing and future aims.
Past roadblocks stem from emotions, beliefs, habits, or missing skills.
Limiting beliefs are maintained by three controllable elements: language, focus, and physiology.

Identifies the core structural difference between psychological barriers and mechanical skill deficiencies.

Step 3: Creating a Rapid Massive Action Plan (MAP)

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Robbins asserts that 80% to 90% of failures stem from psychology rather than missing skills, as the right mindset naturally seeks out education. He transitions into Step 3: developing a Massive Action Plan (MAP). Instead of spending weeks constructing a flawless strategy, individuals must quickly brainstorm potential actions, identify the 20% that generate 80% of results, and execute an initial step immediately.

Mindset and emotional regulation comprise up to 90% of success; tactical skills follow psychology.
A MAP prioritizes immediate execution over protracted, perfectionist planning.
Select the 20% of brainstormed ideas that will yield 80% of results and execute immediately.

Provides a pragmatic antidote to perfectionism and over-planning.

Persistence and Step 4: Slaying the Dragons

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Tony uses the metaphor of teaching an infant to walk to challenge adults who abandon their ambitions after several failed attempts. He transitions into Step 4: doing what is genuinely hard and slaying the dragon. The dragon is rarely an external individual or circumstance; it is almost universally an internal fear, habit, or limiting belief. Robbins emphasizes that true internal transformation is what unlocks external results.

Persistence should mirror a child learning to walk: continue adjusting until the goal is achieved.
Step four requires actively confronting difficult emotional friction rather than evading it.
The primary adversary in any plateau is an internal limiting emotion, not external conditions.

Highlights the reality of hard emotional labor and relentless trial-and-error.

High-Volume Repetition and Step 5: Daily Practice

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Robbins illustrates the price of mastery using basketball icon Steph Curry, noting that making shots look effortless is the byproduct of taking millions of practice shots. Knowing what you want and having a plan is useless without executing the hard work. He then introduces Step 5: maintaining momentum through a daily practice. A consistent, non-negotiable daily routine guarantees regular compounding progress toward the target.

Effortless mastery is built upon millions of hidden, unglamorous repetitions.
Execution, not theoretical planning, transforms identity and outcomes.
A dedicated daily discipline is essential to protect momentum and secure steady gains.

Exemplifies the volume of practice needed for elite mastery and introduces daily habit consistency.

Step 6: Raising Standards Through High-Frequency Measurement

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Step 6 focuses on continuously elevating personal and organizational standards, which Robbins argues is impossible without objective measurement. Sharing insights from managing over 100 portfolio companies, he explains that tracking critical metrics more frequently accelerates error correction. Annual reviews result in bad years, whereas weekly or daily audits allow rapid intervention to ensure failure windows remain narrow.

You cannot manage what you do not measure.
Increasing measurement cadence from annual to weekly or daily prevents catastrophic compound errors.
Heightened measurement focuses attention and energy precisely where performance must improve.

Delivers a critical business and performance principle linking measurement frequency to operational control.

Step 7: Celebrating Wins and Initiating the Next Cycle

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The final step emphasizes taking time to pause, appreciate, and celebrate achieved victories before resetting. Celebration signals to the nervous system that discomfort was worthwhile, building the emotional capital needed to level up. Robbins illustrates how the seven-step model operates as an ongoing loop: every achieved summit naturally leads to selecting new goals, identifying new gaps, executing fresh action plans, and slaying new dragons.

Celebration conditions the brain to recognize that rigorous effort yields rewarding outcomes.
Achieving a goal naturally triggers the start of a higher-level 7-step cycle.
Sustainable lifelong growth functions as a continuous, iterative loop rather than a static finish line.

Explains the psychological necessity of celebration to reinforce the growth loop.

Key points

Define Outcomes Through Inversion and Motive — Progress requires razor-sharp focus on what you actually desire and the underlying emotional 'why' that fuels perseverance through discomfort. If paralyzed by uncertainty, invert the question by detailing the 'scenario from hell,' then writing its exact opposite.
Confront the Gap and Identify Internal Blockers — Real progress demands honest assessment of the distance between your current state and desired outcome. At least 80% to 90% of the time, the bottleneck is not a lack of technical knowledge but internal resistance: limiting beliefs, emotional fear patterns, or poor state control.
Execute a Rapid MAP Over Perfect Planning — A Massive Action Plan (MAP) is not an exhaustive blueprint; it involves rapidly brainstorming potential pathways, selecting the top 20% that drive 80% of progress, and taking immediate action without waiting for perfection.
Measurement Cadence Dictates Management and Standards — You cannot manage what you do not measure, and the frequency of measurement determines error recovery time. Tracking primary metrics weekly or daily prevents bad months or bad quarters, providing the baseline necessary to continually raise standards.

“clarity is power if you know what you really want why you want it that's different than the earlier conversation when she's telling you what she didn't want you make no progress focused on what you don't want” — Tony Robbins

“The reason you don't know she keeps saying "I don't know i don't know i don't know." which conditions you not to know it literally blinds you” — Tony Robbins

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i want to give you a overly simplistic simple model it's like a checklist it's like okay I

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want to change my body i want to change my relationship where do you start the first

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step on your path is what do you really want and why do you want it clarity is power if you know

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what you really want why you want it that's different than the earlier conversation when

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she's telling you what she didn't want you make no progress focused on what you don't want so

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you have to start with what do I really want and most importantly the fuel is why you want it and

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you have to have strong enough reasons to actually follow through when it gets uncomfortable because

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it's going to get uncomfortable and that's the first step if you said "I want something." And

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you can't tell me what you want that's where we need to start he said "I don't know." Okay great

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here I'll help you i don't know what I want in my business i don't want anyone for a profession i

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don't know what I want for a relationship now great if you really don't know let's try this

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let's describe the job from hell the job you'd never want describe the relationship from hell

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everything you never want in a relationship and you know what will happen there's an energy in

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upset and anger and when people start writing with that energy they get flow most people can

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tell you the problem plenty of detail just like you did and then when they write it

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all down what they don't want then I say "Okay now look at that piece of paper and write the

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opposite you have the job from heaven you have the relationship from heaven." So we can get

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you there if you don't know what to do get up in your body change your state and you'll know

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what it is the reason you don't know she keeps saying "I don't know i don't know i don't know."

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which conditions you not to know it literally blinds you so that's the first step in anything

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and if you we get to somebody and they're unclear we're all going to go how if they're

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not on the path first step to the path do they know what they want and why they want it with

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clarity is it strong enough if it is they're on the path if they're not you're not even on the

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path second step and by the way there's seven but the first four are the most important the

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others just give you momentum the second one is you got to find and face the truth does the truth

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will set you free what does that mean you got to be clear and honest about where you really

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are compared to where you want to be how many of you have some areas of your life where you are

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not where you want to be how many some areas where you're actually doing great you're proud of where

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you are in that area of your life the only way you improve once you know what you want why you want

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it is to tell yourself the truth about why you're there in other words describe the gap with clarity

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where are you compared to where you want to be and then the second part of that is you got to close

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the gap in order to do that you got to get clear what's gotten in the way in the past and that's

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basically what I did with each of these people I was just talking to if you listened what's gotten

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in the way it's a fear it's an emotion or it's a limiting belief or and that belief is made up

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of language physiology and focus in case you haven't noticed they're all made up of those

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three things we could change any of those and change the belief or is it a skill you're missing

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you know like you land on your finances but you don't have any skills in there you don't know how

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to invest you don't know the basic principles so the way you face the truth that'll set you free is

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you figure out what's stopped you in the past and there's only a few things it's a set of emotions a

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set of beliefs or set of habits or skills you're missing and I'll tell you 90% at least 80% of

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the time it's the mental and emotions cuz if you have the right beliefs and emotions you could get

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the skill and if you tell yourself the truth there now you're really on the path now you got momentum

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then what's the third step improve your business your finances and create a map a map is a massive

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action plan and you don't wait till you know the perfect thing to do you just simply sit

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down and say "Okay what's worth trying what can I do right now?" Not I'm going to wait spend 20 days

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to come up with a map no no no this is a massive action plan what I'm going to do now what are all

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the ways I could get to the result I want you brainstorm them all and you're not going to do

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all those things so you're going to come back and say "What are the 20% of these things that'll give

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me 80% of the progress?" And those are the things you go do and you do one of those immediately you

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don't wait you don't wait till it's perfect and by the way if it doesn't work what do you do try

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something else if that doesn't work what do you do how many times do you change till you get what you

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want you heard me share this with you before how long do you give your average baby to learn how

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to walk before you shut them off and go "Dude you're not a you're not a walker what are you

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crazy see my kids going to keep trying to their walk that's why almost everybody walks we need a

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just a quick map a quick piece what are three things you're going to do and I'll say that to

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many of you afterwards tell me two or three things you're going to do out of this so I know you're

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going to take not just the understanding what's stopping you but you know what to

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do and then the fourth one these first four are the majority of it you got to do what's

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hard that's what everybody tries to avoid you got to slay your dragons so the dragon hers

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is fear it's not even her husband it's fear her dragon is she wants all of her love to come from

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her daughter cuz it's safe love if she had other forms of love in her life she wouldn't be in this

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fearful place right so she needs to slay her giant she needs to change what needs to be changed it's

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a belief it's an emotion it's a pattern it's a habit it's all it is and we're going to do

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that this week or you go get the skills that are necessary you do the hard work again why

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does Steph Curry make shots from half court look and make it look effortless cuz he's done it two

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and a half million times but all the shots he's ever taken his career is only 16,000 and he's

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made only 3,000 of those and he's the greatest shooter in the history of the game that's what

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it means to do the hard work if you're not doing the hard work you're not going to get the result

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it's not enough you know what you want it's not enough that you know what stopped you or you got

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a good plan you got to do that plan you got to go make it you got to get the result and when

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you slay the dragon you will transform and the dragon is almost always an emotion or a limiting

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belief now all you do you go to step five you want to keep the momentum you need a daily practice so

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that now there's something you little you do every day that keeps you moving forward some kind of

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daily practice that'll guarantee progress progress will lead to what you want and then six once you

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do that you just need to keep raising the standard a little bit you get a little better demand a

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little more and by the way you can only do that if you measure things if you're in business if you

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don't measure it you're not managing it if I take over a company I got 111 companies now how can you

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run 111 companies because I go in those companies I figure out what are the most important things

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and I measure them more often it's the first thing I do some people measure thing once a year so you

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have bad years if I only measure once a month I'm going to do 12 times better i got 12 times

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to improve it instead of one you might have bad months but you're not going to have a bad

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year if I measure it weekly you're not going to have a bad month if I measure it daily you won't

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have any bad weeks some things when I first take over a company I'll measure them three times a day

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and where focus goes energy what so you have to measure what's going on am I making progress and

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then raise the standard i expect a little bit more for myself and then the seventh step you're there

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the seventh step in all this is really simple you're on your path flip it up there for everybody

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but now what you're going to do is you want to celebrate it right life's a gift so you want to

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celebrate and you want to appreciate where you are cuz otherwise you're always trying to do something

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it's good to stop and celebrate because the brain goes "It was worth it." And if it's worth it and

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I'm celebrated and I build on success guess what the end of the step is you're going to pick what's

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the next level you'll start this again what do I want now isn't that cool oh what's preventing

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me from getting that level h Okay what's some quick actions I could do that all right what

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dragons do I need to slay and what I'm going to do what skill what oh okay all right daily

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practice keep measuring it win again this is how you do it with anything how many of you have an

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area you've done really well within your life an area you're proud of this is the game for anything

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so if I want to know whether I'm on the path or not and I don't even know what I want I'm

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not even on the path yet i start there if I know what I want why I want it great what's the next

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thing let me figure out the truth what's the gap what's kept me from where I am what's gotten the

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P way in the past that I need to handle okay let me create a quick map all right let me go slay

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that dragon let me get some daily practice let me keep raising the standard let me win again

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this is what I do in all the areas of my life and it's so simple so it's in your relationship

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that's true i don't have the relationship I want well we got to start with what do you really want

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