Don't Let Fear Stop You

Shrink For The Shy Guy

Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

There is something you want to be able to do. Maybe it's starting conversations, making friends, improving your love life, or starting that big project. Something that would make your life more fulfilling, exciting, and interesting...

But then the voice of fear and self-doubt kicks in.

What if it doesn't work? You're not good enough to do that... You'll fail and then everyone will see that and judge you for it.

As long as you listen to this voice, you will never reach your full potential. Join Dr. Aziz as he guides you around the fear trap and into a life of more boldness, courage, and social success.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon.
0:05.3	Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination.
0:13.6	With your host, Dr. Aziz.
0:18.4	Welcome to today's episode of Shrink for the Shy Guy.
0:21.2	I'm your host, Dr. Aziz.
0:22.6	Today's episode is all about fear, specifically overcoming fear.
0:29.5	And if you listen to the last episode in which I interviewed Dr. Zazio, who is a big proponent
0:34.2	of exposure, has helped thousands of people directly and indirectly through her
0:39.8	shows on TV to help realize that you can shift your fears. You can overcome your fears simply by
0:48.4	addressing them, by turning towards them. So I thought today would be a great opportunity to follow that up, to keep that
0:55.5	momentum going, keep you thinking in that same line to turn towards your fears. So today is going to be
1:02.5	all about overcoming your fears. And to begin to do that, we're going to get into what some of
1:08.1	your fears might be in a moment. The first thing we have to talk about is the opposite of fear, which is your comfort zone. Maybe you've heard
1:17.1	that term before. Maybe it doesn't mean anything to you, but the comfort zone is the collection
1:23.6	of things that you do, activities that you do,
1:28.3	places you like to go, restaurants you like to go to,
1:31.3	foods you like to eat, the ways in which you like to interact with people,
1:35.3	the way you drive to work or commute to work,
1:39.3	the way in which you hold your body, the clothes that you wear,
1:43.3	everything, all the patterns that you have, all the clothes that you wear, everything, all the patterns that you have,
1:46.2	all the things that you do that are familiar to you, normal, to you, comfortable to you.
1:53.4	And that is your comfort zone.
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