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. Riziz.

Hey, welcome to today's episode of the show.

Today we're going to be looking at something that I know impacts you in your life

because I know it impacts everyone.

And that is how we deal with setbacks or failures or defeats, rejections, the stuff that just does not go the way that we want it to.

And this happens all the time in life, doesn't it?

I mean, life doesn't always go the way we want it to.

We don't always get the result that we want.

So whether it's that you are,

we're talking to someone and you're very interested in them and it looks like maybe you guys are

going to go out on a date or something and then she disappears or says no or says she has a boyfriend

and you feel defeated or deflated or discouraged or it might show up in your work, right? You have a particular

account or a potential client or a prospective customer and it looks like it's going to go well

and then it falls through. Or maybe you have a customer or an account in your company and your

business and your with your personal clients and someone drops or ends prematurely

or an agreement changes and all of a sudden something that you thought was going to happen

didn't. And you feel defeated. Or maybe you put your effort into something. You really tried

something, tried some new system or program or something and thought it might help you in your

business or your social life. And it just doesn't work or you have a experience of going to a party and you're having a bad

time there again. You know, one of these setbacks, one of these challenges and then you just

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