Very often when I speak of the development of personality, people ask me "What about annihilation?" But it depends on what form of annihilation they mean. One can only be a spendthrift if one has wealth; one cannot annihilate what one does not possess. When an individual has no personality he can annihilate nothing; there must be something first. If a person started in life with self effacement he would never become a self. What would he efface? Effacing comes afterwards. First he must be a self, a real self that is worth being.