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 Dr. Aziz, and today's show is great because in this show, we're going to talk about how to get into shape.

Before you turn it off, I don't necessarily even getting into physical shape.

Although I do think that if that's an area that you struggle in, if you're not satisfied with your weight, with your physical ability, with your body, with

your health, then that's going to have an extreme impact on all areas of your life, including

your social confidence and how you feel about yourself.

I can't tell you how many guys will feel uncomfortable or reluctant to put themselves out there,

to meet women, to develop their social network because

their fears around their physical appearance and their body. And I know I fell into this camp for

many years. So that's a whole other issue and one worth talking about in a later episode.

But in this episode, I'm not talking about physical fitness. I'm talking about social fitness.

So social fitness is a concept that's really been pioneered by a psychologist named Lynn Henderson.

She is a big force in the field of shyness and shyness research.

She's worked with Phil Zimbardo from Stanford on shyness research for decades.

She created a place called the Shyness Clinic in Palo Alto, California, which is actually

where I did some of my training.

So she is an amazing thought leader in this area, and she's really pioneered and put forth

this idea of social fitness.

And that's what I want to talk with you today about, because if you can

get this idea, if you can see your social ability, your social confidence, your capacity to go

meet people, talk to people, feel comfortable with people, as a type of fitness, it changes

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