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. Riziz.

Hey, welcome today's episode of the show. with your host, Dr. Raziz.

Hey, welcome today's episode of the show.

I'm excited to be with you today because if you're listening to this, then you are bold.

I know that you're bold because the title of the episode is how to desensitize your fear of rejection.

With my guest expert Scott Allen, who we're going to dive into that interview in just a minute and if you're listening to a show called how to desensitize

your fear of rejection you're already facing rejection in a way that is more than most people

and you might be listening to this and thinking like oh this is for me because I'm shy or anxious or not as confident or something different and bad about me,

which we'll also get into in the interview. But the truth is, the vast majority of people live a

life of habitually avoiding rejection. Because the vast majority of people, aka all of us, on some level, are afraid of rejection,

afraid of the unknown, afraid of taking a risk and getting a no, or getting a no thank you,

or getting a get the hell out of here, or whatever we're specifically worrying about is going to

happen. Every human shares that.

Even the most confident people, the people that appear extremely confident and as if they have no fear of rejection,

guess what their secret is?

They weren't born that way.

They don't have just naturally God-granted high self-esteem.

The truth is they faced that specific scenario dozens or even

hundreds of times. That is how they gained that confidence in that area. That is how they became

less scared of rejection in that area is through massive exposure, massive desensitization.

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