What is *Choose Your Enemies Wisely* by Patrick Bet-David about?

*Choose Your Enemies Wisely* offers a strategic blueprint for entrepreneurs to transform adversaries into catalysts for growth. Patrick Bet-David argues that carefully selected enemies—those who doubt or oppose you—can fuel emotional drive and discipline, enabling long-term business success. The book combines actionable frameworks, real-world examples, and leadership principles to help readers build resilient organizations and achieve audacious goals.

Who should read *Choose Your Enemies Wisely*?

Visionary entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone building a multi-generational company will benefit from this book. It’s tailored for individuals seeking to channel criticism into motivation, refine their strategic planning, and create cultures that inspire loyalty. Fans of Bet-David’s prior work, *Your Next Five Moves*, will find this sequel builds on his signature tactical approach.

Is *Choose Your Enemies Wisely* worth reading?

Yes—the book distills Bet-David’s decades of entrepreneurial experience into concise, actionable steps. Unlike generic business guides, it focuses on leveraging emotional intelligence and competitor analysis to drive decisions. Readers praise its no-fluff style and practical tools for overcoming stagnation. If you’re struggling with doubters or need a roadmap for exponential growth, this book delivers.

What are the main concepts in *Choose Your Enemies Wisely*?

- **Enemy Selection**: Identify adversaries whose opposition sharpens your focus. - **Emotional Fuel**: Channel anger or doubt into disciplined action. - **Long-Term Vision**: Prioritize sustainable growth over short-term wins. - **Cultural Alignment**: Build teams that embrace your mission relentlessly. Bet-David argues that enemies, when chosen strategically, become catalysts for innovation and resilience.

How does Patrick Bet-David define “enemies” in the book?

Bet-David distinguishes **competitors** (known rivals with clear strengths) from **enemies** (those who provoke emotional resolve, like doubters or past critics). Enemies are psychological triggers that push you to “out-work, out-improve, and outlast” opposition. Selecting the right enemies ensures your energy fuels growth rather than wasted conflict.

What are key takeaways from *Choose Your Enemies Wisely*?

1. **Strategic Adversity**: Use enemies to benchmark progress and maintain urgency. 2. **Emotional Discipline**: Convert negativity into structured execution plans. 3. **Cultural Cohesion**: Align teams around shared enemies to unify efforts. 4. **Legacy Focus**: Design businesses to outlast generational shifts.

Are there criticisms of *Choose Your Enemies Wisely*?

Some readers note the approach risks fostering unhealthy obsessions if enemies are poorly chosen. Critics also highlight Bet-David’s anecdotal style, which prioritizes motivational rhetoric over data-driven analysis. However, supporters argue the emotional framework is precisely what makes the strategies actionable for entrepreneurs.

How does this book relate to Patrick Bet-David’s previous work?

As a sequel to *Your Next Five Moves*, this book deepens Bet-David’s focus on strategic foresight. While the earlier work emphasized tactical decision-making, *Choose Your Enemies Wisely* explores the psychological drivers behind sustained success. Together, they form a cohesive system for entrepreneurial leadership.

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En "Choose Your Enemies Wisely" (Elige a tus enemigos sabiamente), Patrick Bet-David revela cómo los adversarios impulsan el éxito. Este éxito de ventas #1 del Wall Street Journal, respaldado por el cofundador de Home Depot, Ken Langone, transforma el dolor emocional en poder estratégico. ¿Y si tu mayor obstáculo fuera en realidad tu mayor oportunidad?

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The Enemy That Fuels Your Fire

What if your greatest enemy could become your most powerful ally? In Patrick Bet-David's groundbreaking book, he reveals how the right adversaries can transform from obstacles into rocket fuel for unprecedented success. This isn't just another business strategy book-it's a blueprint for channeling emotion into structured action. The book has garnered praise from titans like Ray Dalio and Robert Kiyosaki, with Shark Tank's Daymond John calling it "the most important business book of the decade." Born from Bet-David's own transformation after witnessing his father's humiliation, this methodology has helped thousands of entrepreneurs convert raw emotion into strategic action. Whether you're building a startup or scaling an empire, Bet-David's framework offers something revolutionary: a business plan that harnesses both heart and mind to create lasting success.

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The Twelve Building Blocks: Where Emotion Meets Logic

Most business plans fail for a simple reason: they're either too emotional without structure or too logical without motivation. The true magic happens when these elements combine. Consider two archetypes: "Emotional Ernie" has passion but lacks organization, while "Logical Larry" creates perfect plans but lacks the fuel to sustain him through challenges. Neither succeeds alone. Like a bird needs both wings to fly, a business needs both emotion and logic to soar. What makes winners in any field is their ability to integrate emotion and logic. Emotion reminds us why we do something, while logic tells us how to do it. This approach resonates across diverse personalities-from analytical types who finally understand why people fall asleep during their presentations, to women and minority leaders who thrive when emotion is valued, to military veterans who understand both tactical planning and emotional motivation. Take Steve Jobs, for example, who combined his emotional "reality distortion field" with rigorous attention to technical detail, or Sara Blakely, who built Spanx by combining her passionate belief in her product with methodical business execution. When I raised $10 million for my financial services firm in 2017, it wasn't just my bold vision of having 500,000 licensed agents by 2029 that convinced investors. It was the combination of that emotional vision with logical elements-growth rates, projections based on real data, specific tactical strategies, and industry metrics. We presented detailed market analysis showing a 23% annual growth rate in our sector, backed by customer acquisition costs of $127 per client and a lifetime value of $3,200. Investors couldn't write the check fast enough because we integrated both emotion and logic in a compelling narrative. The foundation of this approach is choosing your enemy, followed by six emotional and six logical building blocks: Enemy and Competition, Will and Skill, Mission and Plan, Dreams and Systems, Culture and Team, and Vision and Capital. Each pair works in tandem - for instance, your Enemy (emotional) drives your competitive strategy (logical), while your Will (emotional) determines how you develop Skills (logical). Before creating this plan, however, you must examine your past year-what worked, what failed, and why. Looking back helps identify trends and weaknesses that would otherwise repeat. Elite performers in sports, military, and medicine all conduct thorough post-mortems. The Navy SEALs spend hours debriefing even successful missions, and championship sports teams review every game, win or lose. New mistakes are acceptable; repeating old ones is not. The goal is creating both duration and depth-staying in business through tough times while building passion, impact, and profitability. This requires balancing short-term tactical decisions with long-term strategic vision, maintaining both emotional resilience and logical discipline. There's also something else: magic-that feeling you're in the right place doing something meaningful with a unified team greater than the sum of its parts. Without magic, tasks become chores; with it, they have meaning. Companies like Patagonia and Southwest Airlines demonstrate this magic by combining strong financial performance with genuine emotional connection to their mission.

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Choosing Your Enemy: The Catalyst for Success

Enemies don't have to be people-they can be institutions, roadblocks to success, or anything preventing customer happiness. Like Elon Musk who targets fossil fuels while being fueled by doubters, your enemy could be predatory lending, obesity, or failing schools. Without an enemy to drive you, finding strength to persevere becomes nearly impossible. You judge enemies based on the emotion they create-the more emotion, the more fuel for success. Top-rated enemies make you focus, increase effort, and create urgency. Consider a successful Florida real estate agent who turned red with fury when asked about her competitor, revealing how her resentment of his privileged background drives her relentless work ethic. Great enemies make you want to win to avoid shame and embarrassment. Finding enemies means recalling those who made you feel small-haters, doubters, rejectors-whose words sting because you fear they might be true. When you're already at the top, like Sheena Sapaula who became her company's leading earner, you must find external targets. Sheena deliberately talks big so others will doubt her, creating enemies who fuel her ambition. There are fourteen enemy types in two categories: Outside Yourself (including people you hate, unsupportive relatives, manipulators, gossipers, doubters, ex-partners, and those who quit on you) and Within Yourself (including scarcity mindset, limited thinking, ego, mediocrity, and fear of success). The most powerful enemy that drives winners: "People who are beating you because their vision and accomplishments are greater than yours." However, Jordan Peterson warns against choosing weak competitors, comparing it to chess grandmasters playing only amateurs. The right approach is playing against people who beat you as much as you can tolerate. Choose enemies that give you energy rather than drain it. Unworthy enemies include companies trailing you in the marketplace, people you've surpassed, jealous relatives, toxic people trying to provoke you, and small thinkers with victim mentalities. When analyzing competition, think broadly beyond direct rivals. Coca-Cola must consider not just Pepsi and Dr Pepper but protein drinks, bottled water, energy drinks, diabetes education campaigns, and even improved municipal water systems. Never claim you have no competition-that shows you're not thinking about how customers solve their problems. The most effective competitive research comes from your own detective work. As a Bally Total Fitness salesperson, I called competitors pretending to be a customer, learning their scripts and objection-handling techniques. Then I'd call them again saying my girlfriend recommended Bally to hear exactly how they sold against us. This preparation put me five moves ahead with prospects, allowing me to preemptively address competitor claims.

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Will and Skill: The Driving Force and Tools for Success

Will is emotional-wanting something in a way you can't describe. Skills are logical-the tools that allow you to impose your will so you win. Money can only move you so far; if it's your sole motivation, you'll eventually stop. Those who keep fighting are driven by something much bigger-an indomitable spirit or determination. The difference between "want" and "will" is profound. When my eight-year-old son Dylan declared "I will be the greatest fighter in the world" during jujitsu practice, I recognized the emergence of will. Later when his performance dropped, he tried changing his words to "want" instead of "will." In a private moment, he admitted the truth: "If I say will, I have to do it, but if I say want, I don't have to." This eight-year-old grasped what took me decades to learn-the difference between willpower and wantpower. Want has zero weight; will has incredible power. For your business plan to work, you must identify and address your root issues. When you improve personally, your business improves. Building skills means putting will into action and saying yes to getting better, regardless of excuses about time or money. According to Harvard Business Review, only 29 percent of new hires have all the skills required for their current roles. In technology fields especially, falling behind means becoming irrelevant quickly. You can't support declarations without skills. As Steve Jobs noted at 39, "By the time I'm fifty, everything I've done up until now will be obsolete." Rather than setting arbitrary reading goals, first identify the three skills you most need to develop. For each skill, read at least six books and attend one training course. Go deep rather than wide to find trends, commonalities, and contradictions that help you develop your own strategies. This approach transforms weaknesses into future strengths. You don't need to develop every skill yourself-sometimes recruiting others with the right expertise is more efficient. The Stanfields addressed their franchising knowledge gap by hiring two former Domino's executives rather than learning everything themselves. Within a year, they expanded from four stores to eight and made $2 million. As Einstein said, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

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Mission and Plan: The Purpose and Path Forward

Mission creates endurance and attracts the right people, while plans provide the logical framework for execution. Without a strong mission, you're just another company driven solely by money. Finding your mission is an "inside job" that requires active recruitment. Four ways to "recruit" your mission include: taking time to see what moves you, determining what you're sick of, asking "what sets me off," and identifying what bothers you so much you can't live with yourself without addressing it. Great mission statements are concise and emotionally resonant, like Patagonia's "We're in business to save our home planet" or Tesla's "To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy." My own mission discovery came during a period of success but inner emptiness. Despite financial achievement in my twenties, I felt directionless until attending a Claremont Institute event where George Will spoke about America's problems. Will's masterful blend of emotion and logic inspired me, and when introduced afterward, Will encouraged me to study why America attracts immigrants and why capitalism works. This advice ignited my passion. The next day, I delivered an uncharacteristically patriotic speech at my sales meeting, feeling truly alive for the first time. My mission crystallized: "to use entrepreneurship to solve the world's problems and teach capitalism because the fate of the world depends on it." Many people diminish their missions by using the word "just"-"I just want to make enough money" or "I just want a simple life." This language minimizes your purpose and may indicate fear of failure or insufficient reflection. A simple tool: remove "just," transition from "I want to..." to "I'm on a mission to..." and add "because" with your reason. For example, "I just want to build a business my kids can run" becomes "I'm on a mission to build a business that makes a difference and creates generational wealth because I have what it takes and I love my family." Before creating a plan, you must know where you stand. A SWOT analysis helps orient you by examining your Strengths (leverage what you do best), Weaknesses (build skills, delegate, or mitigate), Opportunities (ask "what if" questions without worrying about how), and Threats (cultivate a paranoia mindset). To create an effective plan, you must monitor newsworthy topics that will impact your business. Whether it's elections, tax code changes, or industry-specific developments, staying informed shapes your strategy and calendar. Beyond general business news, you need to track industry-specific issues-transportation businesses should monitor railroad strikes and pipeline legislation; financial firms must watch inflation and regulations. Like Kobe Bryant who planned his entire year in advance to manage playing on Christmas Day, you must calendar twelve months ahead to avoid conflicts between business and personal commitments. Map out every campaign, retreat, strategy session, board meeting, and quarterly review.

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Dreams and Systems: Vision and Execution

Dreams ignite ambition, but systems make them reality. In December 2022, I fulfilled my childhood dream of becoming a minority owner of the New York Yankees-a journey that illustrates how audacious achievements begin with audacious dreams. Yet most people's dreams fail because they lack effective systems. Systems function as "dream-making machines" or "hero-making machines." Like a bodybuilder's dream of winning Mr. Olympia requires systematic workouts, nutrition, supplements, and recovery, your dreams need structured systems with proper sequencing and continuous refinement. As most people struggle with short-term thinking, leaders must paint vivid pictures of how life will look in one, ten, or fifty years based on today's efforts. The phrase "Imagine if one day..." serves as a powerful prompt for dream-casting-just as it sparked my journey to Yankees ownership. Dreams without rewards lose their power to motivate. I once watched a sales rep double his annual income in a single month but fail to celebrate-resulting in a dramatic income drop the following month. Without experiencing the emotional reward of success, his subconscious questioned the value of hard work. Effective goals must be specific, measurable, have deadlines, and include planned rewards. When dreams evolve from mere wishes to what I call "future truths," they gain transformative power. The key is living in the present as if your dreams have already become reality, expressing them with absolute conviction. This conviction becomes contagious, inspiring others to follow you. I advocate surrounding yourself with visual reminders of your dreams. When pursuing my goal of saving $1 million to buy a yellow Hummer, I placed pictures everywhere-on my speedometer, phone, mirror, and wallet. This constant visual reinforcement imprinted the goal in both my conscious and subconscious mind. While dreams provide direction, systems deliver results. I illustrate this with a savings example: to add a zero to your bank account ($10,000 to $100,000) in three years requires saving $2,500 monthly. The system of "paying your savings first"-treating savings as a fixed, automatic cost rather than saving what's left at month's end-ensures consistent progress. Systems create efficiency by automating routine decisions, from Steve Jobs' trademark uniform to my cologne application technique. Without proper systems, even twelve-hour workdays yield only 3-4 hours of productive work. When I became CEO, my lack of systems became a liability until watching Moneyball changed my perspective. The movie showed how baseball scouts who relied on instinct were replaced by those using analytics and data.

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Culture and Team: Building Your Organization

Culture isn't intangible-it's concrete behaviors and rituals. Consider the contrast between American college football fans storming fields versus Japanese World Cup fans cleaning stadiums after defeating Germany. Culture is contagious-when Japanese fans cleaned up, fans from other countries followed suit. The same applies to negativity; complainers recruit other complainers. Every organization stands for something distinct: Bridgewater Associates for radical transparency, Zappos for enjoyment, Yankees for winning. Your company culture must authentically reflect your own values, as people copy their leaders' behaviors. More is caught than taught-actions speak louder than words in shaping mindset. Culture means having people so committed they'll give their best when nobody's watching. It's about standing for something distinctive that defines your organization. To create your culture, ask: What defines your company culture? What are you actively doing to create it? How do you sell it to customers and employees? Culture manifests through repeated rituals and traditions, especially when leaders model the behavior. If you value learning, host "lunch and learns" with speakers. For a risk-taking culture, publicly praise those who take risks, even when they fail-celebrate their vision and courage. Like children learning from parents' actions rather than words, "more is caught than taught" in organizational culture. Every action influences culture, which impacts mindset. My habit of tipping generously (40%) demonstrates valuing hospitality and abundance thinking. One associate, Rodolfo Vargas, transformed from having a scarcity mindset to achieving seven-figure success partly by observing this behavior. People crave belonging to something meaningful. Even Harvard Business School graduates drop "H-bombs" (casual mentions of their alma mater) to gain respect. This explains the $130 billion sports apparel market-wearing a team's jersey associates you with excellence you couldn't achieve personally. Similarly, mentioning you work at Goldman Sachs changes how people view you. No matter your company's size, aim to be more than "just" a business. Learning new ideas and skills is a core value in my companies. I've formalized Sinek's trust versus performance concept into a measurement system with six characteristics: Character, Trust, Work Ethic, Vision/Buy-in, Competency/Skill Set, and Contacts-each ranked 1-10. For your inner circle, high trust is non-negotiable. There's a place for selfish people in most organizations. Two common mistakes are valuing competency over trust (which creates toxicity) and thinking every role requires the same traits. Some of the best salespeople are selfish-they care only about hitting numbers and bring tremendous revenue. I don't make them managers or include them in my inner circle, but they're valuable in the right role.

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Vision and Capital: The Future and Funding

Vision provides fuel that can sustain a business for decades without needing to "refuel"-like the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier that can operate for 26 years without refueling. Unlike dreams which are personal with specific timelines, vision extends beyond individuals and families to impact employees and the world. It's transcendent and outlasts its creator. Great companies distinguish between what should never change (sacred core beliefs) and what should evolve. As Collins and Porras wrote, "Vision provides guidance about what core to preserve and what future to stimulate progress toward." Jeff Bezos advised being "stubborn on vision but flexible on details." A clear vision makes decision-making easier-like FedEx's commitment to overnight delivery or Domino's 30-minute guarantee (which ultimately proved unsustainable). John Schnatter founded Papa John's with an unwavering vision of quality ("Better Ingredients, Better Pizza"), selling his Camaro to start the business. Even years after leaving the company, Schnatter remained obsessed with pizza quality, analyzing every detail from cheese to crust. A powerful vision statement must describe what you'll create, detail the real impact on customers and the world, and clarify priorities that ground all choices. True vision requires decades to validate-as poker legend Doyle Brunson said when asked about promising young players: "Ask me in twenty years." Success takes time-anyone can have a one-year run, many achieve five-year runs, but only the audacious few sustain twenty-plus years. Values and principles only create impact when ritualized, not merely written down or posted. For my company event at Jekyll Island, I invited my top 28 team members-all dressed uniformly-to define our collective vision and values. The ceremony created tremendous excitement, with the video titled "The Signers of PHP Agency" generating overwhelming buzz. Beyond your internal team, your vision must convince external stakeholders-from potential recruits to suppliers to investors. Being great at what you do isn't enough; you must excel at presenting your vision, like how James Cameron pitches films to secure massive studio investments. When presenting your vision, be concise like a resume-focused, specific, and without wasted words. Many entrepreneurs become long-winded when presenting business plans, using unnecessary jargon when the goal should be to be understood. Use phrases like "Let me paint you a picture" to engage listeners' senses, making them see and feel your vision. A successful investor pitch requires three elements: a clear and concise verbal elevator pitch that hooks attention, a 15-slide deck that presents your story with logic and visual clarity, and a compelling verbal narrative that provides the emotional connection.

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Creating Your Audacious Plan

The business plan framework provides comprehensive prompts for each of the 12 building blocks. For Mission, you'll identify your cause, injustices you're correcting, and what drives your passion. The Plan section includes SWOT analysis, crisis planning, and key people to watch. Dreams prompts help articulate aspirational goals and visualization techniques. Systems focus on automation, revenue strategies, and data implementation. Culture questions define your values and how you'll embody them. Team prompts address accountability and talent acquisition. Vision explores your impact and non-negotiables. Capital questions help articulate your differentiators and elevator pitch. To create an effective business plan, I recommend eight key strategies: First, make dedicated time with both your team and family to create the plan. Second, know your audience-whether it's for personal use, your team, or investors. Third, infuse emotion to energize yourself and your team. Fourth, share it strategically with the right rollout approach. Fifth, build in KPIs and incentives that you track religiously. Sixth, keep it simple enough that you can review it weekly without getting overwhelmed. Seventh, identify potential issues in advance and create contingency plans. Finally, review quarterly to study trends and recalibrate as needed. Everyone at every level values the same things-autonomy, growth, and purpose-not just executives. That's why everyone in your organization should have the opportunity to create their own business plan. When people create a vision, their discipline naturally improves. Even asking your receptionist or intern "Who do you want to be in five years?" can be transformative. Where you deliver your plan dramatically impacts its reception. Create excitement by choosing inspiring locations-from Palm Springs mansions to ski chalets in Aspen. The follow-through is equally crucial: timely delivery on promised items shows your commitment. People will match your level of dedication. Remember to enroll rather than enlist-be welcoming and inspiring, letting energy pour from you. While some leadership decisions must come from you alone, rewards are an area where gathering input creates buy-in. When setting BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), ask your team what rewards they want when targets are hit. This exercise creates emotional investment in achieving goals-imagine your top sales rep saying, "When we crush our goal, we're getting custom suits, Rolexes, and flying to Jamaica for a beach party with Ziggy Marley." While business plans require attention to detail, what matters most is people-specifically leadership. Harvard research shows venture capitalists consider management teams more important than products or technology when making investment decisions. As the leader, your credibility is paramount-can people "cash your word"? When you follow through on promises, you gain confidence that others notice. Elon Musk's journey exemplifies how choosing the right enemies fuels extraordinary achievement. After selling PayPal, he invested his entire $180 million across SpaceX, Tesla, and Solar City rather than enjoying a life of leisure. His success required all twelve Building Blocks working together. Emotion provides the why; logic delivers the how. By choosing enemies wisely, entrepreneurs tap into the emotional fuel needed to drive their logical plans forward.

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adversarial motivation
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Enemies don't have to be people.
Without an enemy to drive you, finding strength to persevere becomes nearly impossible.
Will is emotional-wanting something in a way you can't describe.
The true magic happens when these elements combine.

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Patrick Bet-DavidAuthor and entrepreneur who developed the framework
Sheena SapaulaTop earner who creates enemies to fuel ambition

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Patrick Bet-David, autor del éxito de ventas Choose Your Enemies Wisely y fundador del imperio mediático Valuetainment, es una voz líder en emprendimiento, estrategia empresarial y liderazgo.

Nacido en Irán en 1978, su familia huyó de la revolución para construir una nueva vida en los EE. UU., donde más tarde sirvió en la 101.ª División Aerotransportada antes de iniciar una carrera en servicios financieros.

Bet-David canalizó su determinación de inmigrante en la fundación de PHP Agency —una firma de marketing multinivel adquirida por Integrity en 2022— y el canal de YouTube Valuetainment, que cuenta con 4,57 millones de suscriptores y más de mil millones de vistas. Su trabajo combina una perspicacia empresarial ganada con esfuerzo con ideas controvertidas sobre el desarrollo personal, como se ve en su podcast y libros como Drop Out and Get Schooled.

Conocido por entrevistar a luminarias como Ray Dalio y Kobe Bryant, el contenido de Bet-David se sitúa constantemente entre los más compartidos en los círculos emprendedores, alcanzando solo en Instagram los 5,1 millones de seguidores. Choose Your Enemies Wisely resume sus estrategias poco ortodoxas para navegar paisajes competitivos, basadas en su trayectoria de refugiado a magnate de los medios multimillonario.

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