A short YouTube video by Dr. Aziz introducing "embarrassment inoculation": deliberately doing embarrassing acts to reduce shyness. In this segment Dr. Aziz and his friend Josh stand on a busy street corner in downtown Portland (near I405) and plan to perform an intentionally embarrassing dance as a public exposure exercise.
Hey, Dr. Aziz here. And as another segment in the installment of the World Is a Friendly Place, I'm going to introduce to you today something called embarrassment inoculation. And what that basically means is you do something embarrassing on purpose in order to expose yourself to it and to see that it's not really that big of a deal. So now here my friend Josh and I, who's behind the camera are just going to do some embarrassing stuff and see what happens. So in the spirit of that, Josh, here on the street corner in downtown Portland, what's something embarrassing that we can do?
Well, we're standing by I405, so there can't be more than 12000 people passing by this point every five minutes or so. I think it'd be a great street corner to do a little bit of a dance to.
Well, that sounds awfully embarrassing, but let's see what happens. It's Sam. Sa.
