The Price of Non-Vulnerability
Authentic Confidence with Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz Gazipura, Psychologist and Author
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Is It Worth The Risk
Are you afraid to be vulnerable? How many relationships (romantic, friends, or family) have suffered because of this fear? Are you experiencing the feeling of restriction and isolation because of this choice?
Disconnection and loneliness are a common pairing when the decision to dismiss opportunities to be vulnerable has been established.
Join Dr. Aziz and Confidence Coach, Ben Gibson, as they share how to be authentically vulnerable with yourself and then with others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on |
| 0:21.7 | my journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in |
| 0:28.2 | every single person that I meet on my journey. |
| 0:30.6 | You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them in your life now so that you |
| 0:34.8 | can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome to today's episode of the show. |
| 0:49.8 | Today we're talking about something that you might not have ever really thought about, |
| 1:00.2 | but it's affecting you in all areas of your life, all relationships, how you show up in interacting with anyone else, and particularly in your confidence. |
| 1:03.2 | And you might have heard, this has gotten a lot of focus or press recently about vulnerability. |
| 1:11.6 | In fact, Bray Brown, who is a very widespread author at this point, had a TED Talk called |
| 1:17.6 | The Power of Vulnerability, which was really starting to challenge this idea that we need to |
| 1:22.6 | hide everything, especially in business, but even in our personal relationships, and actually start to share more, |
| 1:29.1 | be more open, be more vulnerable, and actually this can bring good things to our lives. |
| 1:34.1 | And of course, we've known this for a long time at the Center for Social Confidence, |
| 1:36.8 | and I'm here actually today with one of my confidence coaches from the Center for Social Confidence, |
| 1:41.7 | a man who I deeply respect and love his perspective and |
| 1:44.6 | opinion. Ben Gibson. Ben, thanks for joining us today. Thank you so much, Dr. Aziz. It was a pleasure |
| 1:50.7 | to be on here with you. I love being able to talk to you anytime. Me too, man. And so this idea |
| 1:57.9 | actually came from Ben because we were talking about this. And we're encouraging our |
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