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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Sometimes it's not anxiety and we just need to be quiet

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Education

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast we're talking about Susan Cain's excellent book Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking.We are also celebrating our podcast passing a landmark 2 million listens, with a sale offering 20% off EVERYTHING in the Anxiety Slayer Store. Visit us at AnxietySlayer.com to find out more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

0:14.7

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

0:19.9

anxiety.

0:30.0

Hello, Ananga, it's wonderful to be with you again for another Slayer session.

0:32.7

Today we're going to talk about a wonderful book

0:35.4

that we both read titled,

0:37.3

Quiet, the Power of Introverts

0:40.1

in a world that can't stop talking. So we both read this book and came away with a lot of talking

0:47.2

points and I think that one of the most interesting parts for me was realizing that I am an introvert.

0:55.6

Me too, I really didn't know. I always thought because I'm outgoing and because I can get in front of a group I can teach I can do those things and enjoy

1:09.1

Doing those things that that made me more extroverted but what I really realize is that for as much time as I need to prepare for and recover from those kinds of events that I really felt at home reading this book like oh this makes a whole lot of sense and what really came about for me is that

1:30.0

extra version is really what our educational system expects of us.

1:38.0

So right from the beginning of our first day of school, we were often trained or put into this pool of

1:46.4

extroverted expectations do you agree with that yeah I've had my own experiences of that and again not realizing what my preference was in terms of

1:57.2

How I live how I'm comfortable living and I can remember at school absolutely dreading sports days where you were expected to just leap around and go for it and it just wasn't part of my nature to do that.

2:10.4

And the interesting thing is when you're in that space, when you are a young

2:15.6

wing in that environment and the majority of the group is running around without issue.

2:24.3

And then you have a handful of wallflowers

2:27.2

that are really not into it.

2:28.9

Those kids are often in a really uncomfortable position because they have to show up.

2:34.7

You know, it's interesting that we start right there

2:36.6

because my daughter and I had a conversation about this just the other day.

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