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Shrink For The Shy Guy

NOT NICE: The High Cost Of Nice

Shrink For The Shy Guy

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

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

4.8649 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How Being Too Nice Can Hurt Your Relationships, Mood, And Health

Many people believe that being nice is a good thing. Not only is being too nice often based in people-pleasing and insecurity, it also can take a toll on your mental and physical health. Join Dr. Aziz as he reveals the real impact of being too nice on your mind and body.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy.

0:05.0

This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt,

0:10.0

social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you.

0:15.0

I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my

0:21.9

journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every

0:28.4

single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply

0:32.9

them in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you.

0:43.4

Hey, welcome to today's episode of the show. Today we're going to be continuing to talk about

0:49.4

being less nice and you being free of this pressure or demand inside to be more nice, more accommodating,

0:59.1

more giving, more whatever one else wants, and pushing down your own desires, your own needs,

1:07.7

your own wants, and making those second, third, fourth, or even fifth priority,

1:12.6

and then experiencing the consequences. You know, in the last episode, we talked about what nice

1:19.2

really is. And in this episode, we're going to be talking about the cost of living as an overly

1:26.5

nice person.

1:30.7

And I can speak for this one firsthand.

1:32.5

So I did this for so many years.

1:39.5

And then we're going to be getting into the five pillars about how to break free and become, you know, what are the steps?

1:42.0

What do we need to do to become fully free of this?

1:44.7

And then in the last one of the series, we're going to talking specifically about speaking up for yourself, which is one of the pillars. But we're

1:48.6

going to go real deep into that just because it's such an important topic for so many people.

1:52.3

And this is all part of a buildup to the release of the book. Not Nice. Stop people pleasing,

2:00.3

staying silent and feeling guilty.

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