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 another episode of Shrink for the Shy Guy.

I'm your host, Dr. Aziz, coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence here in Portland, Oregon.

Today's show is exciting and monumental because it's the first time we have a guest.

Oh, yes.

And we have all kinds of crazy wires hooked up here that are going to allow for the integration of this

microphone and Skype and everything's going to link together perfectly and all will go well. Or so is

the plan we shall see. But before we get into the interview, it's actually with someone who I

highly respect and think offers such a powerful key insight into the theme of this show, which is

do what scares you. Oh yes, I do what scares you. You heard me right. That is something that

actually makes many people cringe, but particularly my shy friends out there. Because as you know, we have a habit, a pattern,

might say, of avoiding what scares us. That's the place that I lived for many years in my life.

If there was something that scared me, say, going over and introducing myself to a pretty young,

attractive co-ed when I was in college,

I wouldn't do that. That sounds like a terrible idea. Or maybe going and applying for a job,

or offering to speak up in a group of people, raising your hand in a class, or taking on a project

at work that involves leadership responsibilities or signing up to

do a presentation at work or at school or anywhere else in your life really finding a way to put

yourself out there you know in the professional life in your personal life when it comes to dating

and relationships or most recently i was at a wedding which happened to be my own. Oh yes, yes, married, hooray.

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