6 tips for overcoming shyness

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hey everyone I've already here from Endor decom my latest post is about overcoming shyness and I give some advice there I consider myself a recovering introvert I used to be very very shy extremely shy cripplingly shy about I'm not now one of more social people I know I want to run through six tips I have for overcoming shyness things that have worked for me first one is to join more social groups so a social group could be something like a running club could be something like Toastmasters could be something from meetup com so any any interest that you have if you can use that to to meet up with other people and just practice your social skills practice approaching people practice talking to people just practice being more social and overcoming your shyness second thing is it's recognized that whenever you're feeling shy instead of giving in to that feeling and running away 2v2 change your mindset a bit and view that situation as an opportunity for growth so it's like saying to yourself if I suck it up now and go and approach that person I'm afraid to talk to in the long run that will really help me so it's of all about short term pain long term game type of thing so it's just to keep that in mind and the more you do that the more you look for opportunities and you won't see them as problems third thing put yourself in sink or swim situations so my biggest leap in overcoming shyness was when I went to New Jersey back in 2004 and I moved from Ireland on my own to New Jersey true myself in at the deep end that was living in a trailer park actually with 300 other internationals and I had had two choices i could eat her sit in the corner all summer long and be by myself or I could actually approach people and try and be friendly and be social and have the time in my life and luckily I chose the latter and I did was one of the best summers I ever had so only because I put myself in that sink or swim situation was I able to overcome shyness so it looked for things like that yourself kind of where you have to force yourself almost put yourself in a situation with your force to come out of your shell for thing environmental stronger than willpower so surround yourself with other people that are good socially have good social skills they will definitely rub off on you if you only hang around with other people who are really really shy they're not going to bring up to two to their level they're just going to keep you down being socially awkward and that's not to say you get rid of any friends of yours that are shy but just find a better balance fifth thing learn to love yourself so the the more you accept yourself for who you are and the more you like yourself or the easier it is to be yourself around other people so work on that as much as you can just accept any imperfections you have embraced them instead of trying to ignore them just just like who you are I know in Ireland especial