Published on January 14, 2014 by Barbara Markway, Ph.D. in Shyness Is Nice
As a psychologist, I am frequently inspired by the resiliency people display in everyday life. Through the Internet and the power of social networking, I have met amazing women whose stories need to be told. Read their success stories and be inspired. I've written full-length posts about each them before. Here I'm sharing their success strategy with a link to their full story.
1. Accept Yourself: Celia
- “You’re doing great work, but you’ve got to come out of your shell.”
- “Have you always been this quiet?”
- "You need to ask yourself, What would Queen Latifah do?"
Celia learned that self-acceptance was the first step in overcoming her anxiety. “The more I convinced myself that being quiet is the same as being weird, the more quiet I became,” she said.
She also learned that shyness had its strengths.
“The real revelation for me is that being shy isn’t even necessarily a social handicap. Shy people have a great gift: their gut about whom to trust. It comes from years of observing people and a deep fear of being burned, and it pulls us away from the frigid, hateful and fake.”
"Being shy is, if not a virtue, at least a blessing: it’s a heightened social sense, an intuitive risk aversion that keeps us far from broken bones and broken hearts."
Read Celia’s story: I'm Shy and I'm OK.
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