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Volume controls how strongly someone projects their inner world outward. Marie Jollette had kept her volume turned almost completely down for 12 years — she let her work speak instead of her words. But at the very moment her job was ending, she turned the volume up for the first time and told the reporter clearly: she had doubled her salary through hard work and she deserved every bit of it. That moment of self-expression was a rare and deliberate choice to project her own worth into the room.