Are You Too Nice?
Authentic Confidence with Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz Gazipura, Psychologist and Author
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Discover The Top Signs That You Are Too Nice... And What To Do About It!
Do you think you're too nice? Have others told you this? Perhaps you've even read Dr. Aziz's book, "Not Nice" and felt like it was written about you. In this episode, join Dr. Aziz as he sheds light on the tricky problem of niceness, where it comes from, and how to upgrade your confidence so you can be less nice and more you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my |
| 0:21.9 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.5 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them |
| 0:33.1 | in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to today's episode of the show. Today we're going to be looking at a very important question. |
| 0:51.3 | Maybe it's a question you've already been asking yourself, but we're |
| 0:55.1 | going to go into a deeper inquiry around, are you too nice? And what that actually looks like, |
| 1:01.8 | what that means, because what I find working with clients over the years on this is there might |
| 1:05.6 | be an initial, like, acknowledgement, like, yeah, yeah, I'm too nice, or, oh, I know, I've heard that before. |
| 1:13.3 | But there's not a real deep understanding of what that actually means. |
| 1:19.4 | And maybe even there's not even a clarity of, well, how is niceness different than kindness |
| 1:23.5 | or isn't niceness good? |
| 1:26.2 | And I've seen this in people, even, you know, people who've read my book |
| 1:29.2 | Not Nice, who really want to change this and they know that it's causing them problems, |
| 1:33.7 | they still question in different situations, you know, oh, maybe I should be this way. And they don't, |
| 1:40.4 | they don't say, wow, I'm being too nice in this relationship. I'm being too nice at work. |
| 1:45.3 | Each situation, each scenario feels so unique and so different. And there's always a reason |
| 1:51.2 | why I shouldn't speak up. There's always a reason why I shouldn't tell that person no. And it's not |
| 1:56.6 | because I'm too nice. It's because dot, dot, dot. And so we're going to investigate this more. |
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