Archive for 'My Shyness'
Shy Symptoms Familiar to me.
It is never nice to see a large list of negatives, especially when you have experienced most of them. But I wanted to post a list of shyness symptoms to gain a clear understanding of just how much shyness can affect you.
Many of these symptoms are familiar to me, especially the behavioural ones. I never [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2007 under My Shyness.
Comments: 1
Good Sense of Belonging.
Two separate and quite different events happened this week which have given me a very nice and comfortable sense of belonging.
Firstly, what a nice surprise it was to find that my blog had been tagged twice. I was very surprised as I still consider this blog to be new, and hadn’t really expected it. [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under My Shyness.
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Blogging your way to shy success.
If you are looking for a safe step towards overcoming shyness, I suggest you start a blog.
I have found blogging has helped with my shyness already. I started my blog just a few weeks ago, and after a bit of reservation I begain to join some blogging communities and started to make a few comments on others blogs. In the past [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under My Shyness, Overcoming Shyness.
Comments: 4
Should you tell people you are shy?
There are times when telling people you are shy could work in your favour. When I started my first university course, I felt very uncomfortable and my shyness took over. I soon realised that I was coming across as being unfriendly. This of course was the last thing I wanted, so I told two classmates [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 under My Shyness.
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Shyness, Blogs and Blog Comments.
I feel a bit silly to admit this but I find it quite hard to leave comments on other people’s blogs.
There are two main comment types:
Contribution comments. where you introduce a new idea, debate, or agree with a point in the blog. These types of comments are usually ok.
Conversational comments. These are more general comments. For example, you like the [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2007 under My Shyness.
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There’s a term for that…
Social Fitness
Desired general state of wellness in which the degree of social participation is determined by personal preference rather than by discomfort and fears of negative evaluation.
- www.shyness.com
I was discussing this idea in a previous blog but didn’t realise there was a term for it. But there you go, Social Fitness is what I am [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2007 under My Shyness, Overcoming Shyness.
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Understanding Shyness: How being shy affects my life.
One a scale of 1 – 10; How shy are you? 1 being painfully, unable to speak to people shy and 10 being not shy at all. I would put myself as a 3.5 (4 on a good day) To be honest my goal in this isn’t to be a 10 instead it is more [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under My Shyness.
Comments: 5
My Shyness
When I was a child I was very shy. I didn’t like meeting new people or doing new things, it was all too scary and uncomfortable because i never knew what to say or do. After leaving school I joined the work force where I had to interact with many new people. This was very scary at [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under My Shyness.
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