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 today's show. I'm Dr. Aziz, and I'm incredibly excited to be with you today because in today's show,

we're going to be going into something that I know from personal experience deep down to my core.

It's something that I keep coming back to as a lesson that I keep learning in my life.

It's, I think, the core of confidence.

It really is the most important thing I believe in life, even more important than your achievements or how social you are,

or if you have a hot girlfriend, or if you earn a lot of money or whatever thing out there that

you're striving for. It truly is, I believe, the most important thing because it affects how

you feel from day to day.

And if you feel like crap, it doesn't matter what you have, does it?

Like if you have a nice car, ever been in a situation like that?

You know, I've had this where I've been on vacation somewhere really nice and I'm like looking at a,

you know, a beautiful landscape or something and I'm

depressed. I'm just kind of like meh whatever or if I'm in a bad mood and I'm with my son and he's like

you know the most cute adorable thing in the world if I'm closed off if I'm not feeling good

then I can't appreciate it and I know you know that feeling where you're you're doing good things

or you're seeing good

things, or you're somewhere amazing, but you just don't feel good. And so that's why I'm excited

about today, because we're going to learn what's going on that produces this continual sense

of dissatisfaction with yourself. And that's why today's show is the secret to self-acceptance.

It truly is, I believe, an incredibly powerful secret. And I know

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