The Benefits Of Shyness With Dr. Lynne Henderson

Shrink For The Shy Guy

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

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

4.8 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do you tend to criticize yourself when you're feeling shy, inhibited, or otherwise not fully confident and outgoing? You're not alone. In fact, our culture teaches us that we are bad for being this way.

But in truth, there are tremendous benefits to the shy part of yourself.

Join Dr. Aziz as he interviews world-renowned author and shyness expert, Dr. Lynne Henderson. You'll discover what the benefits of shyness are, and how to use them to become even more confident in yourself immediately.

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0:00.0	Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon.
0:05.3	Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination.
0:13.3	With your host, Dr. Rezzeze.
0:17.3	Hey, welcome to today's show.
0:20.1	Today we're going to look at something that you may have never
0:23.4	looked at before. And you may have been dealing with shyness or social fears or wanting to build
0:30.1	confidence for years. And you may have never looked at things in this way. And when you do,
0:37.0	you can notice a profound shift in how you feel about yourself and what that
0:41.5	allows you to do in the world.
0:42.5	It's kind of a paradox, but here's what it is.
0:45.1	The benefits of shyness, the upsides, the pros, the strengths of shyness.
0:53.7	Because we tend to focus on the downsides, right?
0:56.6	How it's getting in the way, how it's blocking you, how it sucks, how it's annoying,
1:00.1	you get frustrated at the situation, you probably get frustrated at yourself.
1:04.7	But when we do that, we actually keep ourselves stuck even more.
1:10.8	Because the reality is, shyness itself is not the problem.
1:15.3	It's not this sort of disease that you have to somehow, you know, extricate, extract,
1:21.2	cut out from your nervous system.
1:24.3	Really, the problem is not the shyness.
1:26.1	That little bit of inhibition or maybe that tendency to be a little more reserved.
1:30.7	That's not the problem.
1:32.1	The problem is the way you treat yourself in your mind about the shyness, right?
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