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but also made him a better person.

When he started attending events like

UPW, he says, he focused on who he

wanted to become, and now, when he

delivers his own seminars, he is that

person. “Tony gives me energy,” he

says, “and now I can create energy for

other people when I’m onstage.”

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At the onset of the Culture of Personality,

we were urged to develop an extroverted

personality for frankly selfish

reasons—as a way of outshining the

crowd in a newly anonymous and competitive

society. But nowadays we tend

to think that becoming more extroverted

not only makes us more successful,

but also makes us better people. We see

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