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, Dr. Aziz here. Welcome to another episode of Shrink for the Shy Guy.

Today's episode is going to be focused on the single most powerful thing that you can do to increase your confidence.

To overcome shyness, social anxiety, fear, self-doubt, the single most powerful thing that you can do to radically transform your

level of confidence in your life and then therefore your entire life. Because if you think about it,

if you have a higher level of confidence, if you believe in yourself more, then you're obviously

going to do more. You're going to try more things. You're going to take more risks. You're going to

go for those things that really matter to you. You're going to follow your dream and you're going to take more risks, you're going to go for those things that really

matter to you, you're going to follow your dream, and you're going to have a much higher quality

of results in your life and a much higher quality ultimately of your life.

So what is this thing?

What is this one single thing that can single-handedly turn you from a place of doubt to confidence?

And that is exposure.

Exposure.

And you've heard me talk about something like this in episodes past, and if you go to my

social confidence on our website, this is a theme that runs through everything,

and that's because it is so damn effective.

Basically, exposure means exposing yourself to the thing that you're scared of,

doing the thing that you're worried about or you're frightened of, and seeing what happens.

It means turning that fear of, if I open my mouth, people are going to think

I'm an idiot into an experiment. What happens when I open my mouth? In nine times out of 10,

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