Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon.

Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination.

With your host, Dr. Aziz.

Welcome to another episode of Shrink for the Shy Guy.

I'm your host, Dr. Aziz.

And this episode is all about getting rejected.

Oh yes, the dreaded R word, rejected, the thing that we all desperately are trying to avoid and hope never happens to us.

And yet, inevitably, invari invariably it somehow always does.

And even if we try to avoid rejection fully in our lives, even if we never take that risk and never ask that

person out and never apply for that job, which is a pretty difficult way to live to actually try to avoid all rejection,

but even if we try to avoid most rejection,

we end up feeling rejected anyway, don't we? Even if it's not a direct rejection, we can just

feel rejected. We can feel rejected when someone doesn't make eye contact with us on the street.

So there's so many ways in which we can feel rejected. It's an unavoidable part of life, which sucks, I know.

But this episode is going to be all about looking at rejection,

how you deal with it, what triggers it for you,

and what you can do about it so it doesn't hold you back so much in your life.

So the first thing I'm going to start with is,

man, we're all scared of rejection, aren't we?

I mean, I've been doing this stuff for 10 years where I've been really actively working on developing my confidence and putting myself out there.

I still hate to get rejected.

It still sucks.

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