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.

Hey, welcome to today's show.

I'm Dr. Aziz.

I'm excited to be with you today because you're going to learn today with me how to break out of the shyness prison. That's right. And really you're going to learn how to be more free. Because if you break out of a prison metaphorically, you are hopefully going to feel more free, more socially free. And that's really

what I strive for when I talk with anyone, when I work with someone. That's what I'm continually

exploring in myself is how do we be more liberated? How do we feel more socially free? And that comes

down to a couple of things. One is actually being able to do more things in the world. Like you want to

go talk to that person, you want to go dance, you want to go put something out there in the world,

wherever your shyness might be holding you back. If you can do those things, then you're more free.

And on top of that, we want to feel more free, right? You want to not only just go dance,

but you want to feel free while you do it. You don't want to be terrified

and miserable while you're forcing yourself to do it. That's not full freedom, is it? So you're

going to learn how to become more free in yourself, how to break out of this prison of shyness.

So let's get into it. The first thing is we have to understand what is the prison of shyness, what is

keeping us restricted. And shyness really comes down to two basic things. You can sum it up as

this. It is the fear of judgment. It is the first thing. Afraid of other people judging you.

And then the second part of shyness is as a result of that fear, you inhibit your behavior.

You hold back.

You don't go do something.

You don't say something.

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