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stop studying you are wasting your time
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if you're studying the way most students
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do you're probably wasting 80% of your
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time and you don't even realize it ever
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spent hours cramming only to forget
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everything in the exam most students
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learn how to study the right way too
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late but by the time you finish this
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video you'll know how to study
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effectively and save yourself years of
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frustration imagine you're trying to
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fill a bucket with water but there are
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holes everywhere no matter how much you
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pour in most of it leaks out frustrating
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right well that's exactly what most
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students do when they study they spend
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hours trying to absorb information but
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their brains don't retain much of it and
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the worst part they don't even realize
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it's happening now let's talk about the
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biggest mistakes that are making your
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study sessions almost useless mistake
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one highlighting and rereading most
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students think highlighting their
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textbooks and rereading notes will help
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them remember the material but here's
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the shocking truth studies show that
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rereading has a retention rate of only
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10% that means if you reread a chapter
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today by next week you'll forget 90% of
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it it feels productive because your
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brain recognizes the words on the page
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but recognition is not the same as
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understanding or memorization think
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about it if you keep watching the same
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movie over and over does that make you
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an expert on film making no you're just
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getting familiar with the story and
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that's exactly what happens with passive
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rereading mistake two cramming last
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minute let's be real we've all crammed
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for a test at some point staying up all
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night drinking way too much coffee and
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stuffing information into our brains
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like it's a suit suitcase we're sitting
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on just to close but cramming doesn't
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work long term sure you might remember
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some of it for the test tomorrow but
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within a few days most of that
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information is gone poof here's why your
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brain treats crammed information like
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junk mail it throws it away because it
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knows you don't really need it you're
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just forcing it in without giving your
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brain a reason to hold on to it and if
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you think well I only need to remember
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it for the test here's a hard truth the
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students who actually Master the
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material will always outperform you in
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the long run whether it's in class in
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college
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or in their careers mistake three
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studying passively another massive
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mistake studying passively meaning you
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just read watch or listen without
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actually doing anything with the
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information imagine you want to learn
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how to swim would you read a book about
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swimming and then jump into a pool
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expecting to be an expert of course not
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you drown yet when it comes to studying
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most students do exactly that they read
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the textbook watch a lecture and assume
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they've learned the material but unless
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you engage with the information by
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testing yourself teaching it to someone
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else or practicing it won't stick now
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that you know these mistakes how do you
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actually study the right way that brings
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us to the game-changing shift here's the
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truth studying isn't about how much time
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you spend it's about how much you retain
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some students study for 3 hours and
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forget everything the next day others
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study for 1 hour and remember most of it
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for life the difference how they study
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most people treat studying like Mindless
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repetition but real learning happens
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when your brain is actively challenged
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when it struggles when it makes
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connections and when it retrieves
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information on its own this is where
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retention greater than consumption
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instead of mindlessly consuming
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information you need to focus on
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retaining it in a way that actually
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sticks the learning pyramid the key to
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studying smarter let me show you
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something called The Learning pyramid
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this one simple concept can change the
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way you study Forever at the bottom of
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the pyramid we have reading this has a
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retention rate of only 10% meaning if
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you just read your textbook you're
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forgetting 90% % of it next we have
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lectures when you sit in class and
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listen to a teacher talk you retain
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about 20% now let's go higher watching
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demonstrations that's about 30%
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retention but here's where it gets
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powerful when you actively engage with
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the information retention skyrockets
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practicing a concept that's 75%
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retention teaching it to someone else
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90% retention that means if you truly
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want to remember what you study you need
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to stop just reading and start actively
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recalling teaching and applying the
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information and that's exactly what
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we're about to break down step by step
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step one active recall and testing if
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you want to remember more in half the
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time you need a strategy called active
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recall active recall forces your brain
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to lift the weight instead of passively
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taking in information you pull it out
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from memory which is what makes it stick
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and the best way to do this two
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science-backed techniques strategy one
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the Fineman technique if you can't
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explain something in simple terms you
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don't understand it pick a concept and
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try to teach teach it to a 5-year-old if
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you struggle go back and relearn the
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parts you got stuck on this shows you
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exactly where the gaps in your knowledge
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are refine your explanation until it's
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crystal clear this works because
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teaching forces your brain to organize
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information making it easier to recall
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later strategy two past papers and
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self-quizzing here's a fact the top
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students don't study more they test
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themselves more instead of rereading
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they actively quiz themselves using
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flashcards past exam papers or self-made
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quizzes a real World case study showed
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that students who quizzed themselves
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before studying scored 50% higher on
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exams than those who just read their
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notes step two spaced repetition and the
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forgetting curve did you know that you
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forget 50% of what you learn within an
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hour this is called the forgetting curve
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and it explains why cramming fails your
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brain is wired to forget things it
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doesn't use but here's the good news you
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can hack your memory to remember more
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with less effort instead of trying to
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memorize everything in one sitting
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spread it out over time how do use space
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repetition in three steps day one learn
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the material day three quick review
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approximately 10 minutes day seven self
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test without notes step three how to
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make studying a daily habit the real
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challenge sticking to a study routine
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most people struggle because they
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procrastinate they get overwhelmed they
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burn out so let's fix that with three
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simple habit hacks hack one the
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two-minute rule this is a psychological
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trick that stops procrastination instead
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of telling yourself I have to study for
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an hour tell yourself I'll just read one
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page or I'll just do one flash card once
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you start your brain shifts into might
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as well keep going mode hack two habit
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stacking attach studying to a routine
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you already do after brushing your teeth
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review one flash card after breakfast do
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a 5-minute quiz after dinner summarize
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one Concept in your own words by linking
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it to an existing habit it becomes
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automatic just like brushing your teeth
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hack three avoid burnout with the
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Pomodoro Technique if studying feels
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like a marathon your brain will resist
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instead use the Pomodoro Technique 25
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minutes of deep focus 5minute break
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repeat four times then take a longer
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break now here's the hard truth even the
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best study techniques won't help you if
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you don't use them consistently most
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students cram for hours the night before
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and wonder why they forget everything
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but the real secret small daily effort
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beats last minute Panic every single
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time if this helped hit like And
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