How are you when it comes to compliments?

Do you get nervous or awkward when someone gives you one?

Do you freely share compliments with others?

Or do you hold back and keep them inside?

What would it be like if you could feel joy at receiving a compliment

and love and appreciation as you give compliments to others.

That's exactly what you're going to discover how to do in today's episode.

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. Raziz. Welcome to today's episode of the show. Today is a big one because it's about

compliments. And compliments is something that many people struggle with on some level.

They might have gotten to the point where they can, we can look okay on the outside.

I know I got to there at one point where someone would give me a compliment and I learned to just say thank you

and not squirm around and get really awkward and uncomfortable,

although I've been there too.

So a lot of people have learned to do that, but there's something deeper than that.

There's a way to actually receive the compliment and take it in.

And, you know, a lot of people, most people inhibit themselves when it comes to giving

genuine, heartfelt compliments, really acknowledging the good and the people around them.

And it doesn't mean we don't feel it. It doesn't mean we don't like or love the people that are

around us. We just don't say it. And if pressed, we might just say, well, they know, they know I like them, they know I love

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