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🗓️ 27 May 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The biggest force that stops us from being our most confident self in the world is fear. Fear of failing, of looking bad, of being judged or rejected.
Join Dr. Aziz in the second half of his interview with author and teacher John Parkin as they explore how to say f*ck it to fear and just get out there and do what you want to do in the world.
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0:00.0 | 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. |
0:20.2 | Welcome to today's episode of the show. I'm excited to be with you here today because we've got a great remainder of the interview with John Parkin that if you haven't listened to the first half, it's in last week's episode. Go check that out now. And this guy is fun, man. He's funny. I have not laughed so much in an interview. I don't think ever on this show. |
0:38.3 | And it's funny because he's got a great wit, but he's also just so good at speaking to the |
0:43.9 | truth of the matter in a really light and playful way. And that's how his books are too. So it's a |
0:48.4 | real treat to be talking with John again today. And today we're going to be looking at how to say |
0:53.6 | fuck it and then just |
0:55.3 | go do what scares you. Because so much of the time we hold ourselves back from doing something. |
1:00.5 | You know, maybe we really want to do it. I really want to go talk to her. I really want to |
1:04.3 | make that sale. I really want to get that promotion. I really want to step up and speak up more in |
1:08.5 | meetings. I really want to just share freely with those people or joining into that group. I really want to step up and speak up more in meetings. I really want to just share freely with those people or joining into that group. |
1:13.2 | I really want to, but, right? |
1:16.9 | There's always a but. |
1:18.4 | And then the but is I'm scared. |
1:20.9 | And maybe we have some story. |
1:22.9 | Oh, it's not going to work out. |
1:23.8 | Oh, they're not going to like me. |
1:24.7 | Oh, I'm not good enough. |
1:25.5 | But underneath that is just raw fear, right? We just feel fear in our bodies. And so we got to be able to say, fuck it to that |
1:32.9 | fear and then just go take the action. And the master of that is John. So let's jump into that |
1:38.8 | interview with John right now. |
1:43.4 | Expert interview. |
1:47.5 | It's beautiful to experience that as you have, isn't it? It's a beautiful thing to |
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