Short YouTube monologue by Dr. Aziz presenting a single practical tip for overcoming social anxiety: deliberately confront the things that scare you. The speaker claims avoidance amplifies fear while repeated confrontation shrinks it, producing confidence as a byproduct and urges practice over intellectual understanding.
There is one hack to confidence. And when I did not know this, I spent over a decade in social anxiety paralyzed by fear of what other people were going to think of me. When I discovered this hack and used it, everything changed. What is it? It is quite simple. Do what scares you. That's right, the thing that you're afraid of, the thing that you're nervous. Because here's the thing about fear. Fear, when you avoid it, compounds it, grows bigger. When you confront fear, it gets smaller and confidence, that feeling of like, yeah, I got this and I'm worthy and people like me and of course I can do that. That all comes when the fear is what? Bigger? No, smaller. So shrink the fear by doing what scares you and confidence automatically emerges as a byproduct. Don't just get this intellectually, practice this in your life and I promise you everything will change.
