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His <strong>in</strong>tellect is impressive, too.Though he believes university educationsare overrated (because they don’tteach you about your emotions andyour body, he says) and has been slowto write his next book (because no onereads anymore, accord<strong>in</strong>g to Tony),he’s managed to assimilate the work <strong>of</strong>academic psychologists and package it<strong>in</strong>to one hell <strong>of</strong> a show, with genu<strong>in</strong>e<strong>in</strong>sights the audience can make theirown.Part <strong>of</strong> Tony’s genius lies <strong>in</strong> the unstatedpromise that he’ll let the audienceshare his own journey from <strong>in</strong>feriorityto superiority. He wasn’t alwaysso grand, he tells us. As a kid, he was ashrimp. Before he got <strong>in</strong> shape, he wasoverweight. And before he lived <strong>in</strong> acastle <strong>in</strong> Del Mar, California, he rentedan apartment so small that he kept hisdishes <strong>in</strong> the bathtub. <strong>The</strong> implication127/929

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