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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 06 March 2015 10:40:01PM 4 points [-]
  • Dropping a nuke on your social shyness by joining Toastmasters - a writer should be able to give a speech on a podium? Toastmasters International (and the later is not just a name, they are in Europe etc. too) says on the can that they are about public speaking skills, which is true, but public speaking is simply the hardest kind of speaking for introverted, shy, or self-hating people, go through the Comm manual giving the 10 speeches, participate in table topics, and compared to that 1:1 socializing or chatting will be easy.

Am I the only one who's not exactly the least shy person on Earth in two-way one-to-one or one-to-few interactions and yet has never experienced stage fright?

Comment author: dxu 16 March 2015 02:38:48AM 0 points [-]

Same here, I must say. My dominant hypothesis right now is that for people like us, having a huge audience actually dilutes the our sense of shyness, in the sense that the more people there are, the more it allows for the shyness to "spread out" across those people, whereas with a one-to-one interaction, there's little to no dilution since you're focusing all your energies on this one person in front of you.

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