{"id":225275,"date":"2017-04-10T22:56:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=225275"},"modified":"2017-04-10T22:56:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:56:56","slug":"get-over-your-shyness-by-blocking-out-mealwayseverything-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=225275","title":{"rendered":"Get Over Your Shyness by Blocking Out &#8220;Me\/Always\/Everything&#8221; Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you consider yourself a shy or awkward person, the encounters you&#8217;ve had were probably far less awkward than you thought they were. You can build a little self confidence and dispel some shyness by re-evaluating your social encounters in a positive light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"clear\"><p>This is also known as &#8220;me\/always\/everything&#8221; thinking. A shy person with a me\/always\/everything mindset automatically believes that when a social encounter goes less than ideally, he is the one who caused the problem (<strong>me<\/strong>), that he invariably makes social encounters awkward (<strong>always<\/strong>), and that his social faux pas undermine all aspects of his life (<strong>everything<\/strong>). If the shy person were to actually sit down and think things through, he&#8217;d likely discover that oftentimes it&#8217;s not his fault when a social encounter goes awkwardly&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me\/always\/everything thinking\u2014a concept developed by psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Seligman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Seligman<\/a>\u2014is a trap that many shy folks fall into.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/get-over-your-shyness-by-blocking-out-me-always-everyt-1658103690\">Get Over Your Shyness by Blocking Out &#8220;Me\/Always\/Everything&#8221; Thinking<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you consider yourself a shy or awkward person, the encounters you&#8217;ve had were probably far less awkward than you thought they were. You can build a little self confidence and dispel some shyness by re-evaluating your social encounters in a positive light. This is also known as &#8220;me\/always\/everything&#8221; thinking. A shy person with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225276,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225275\/revisions\/225276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}