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presentations. Although she felt deep

satisfaction after these meetings, she

didn’t enjoy the spotlight, and wanted

my advice on staying cool when she felt

scared.

So what was the difference between

Alison and Jillian? Both were pseudoextroverts,

and you might say that Alison

was trying and failing where Jillian

was succeeding. But Alison’s problem

was actually that she was acting out of

character in the service of a project she

didn’t care about. She didn’t love the

law. She’d chosen to become a Wall

Street litigator because it seemed to her

that this was what powerful and successful

lawyers did, so her pseudo-extroversion

was not supported by deeper

values. She was not telling herself, I’m

doing this to advance work I care about

deeply, and when the work is done I’ll

settle back into my true self. Instead, her

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