Preface | vii | ||
Acknowledgments | xi | ||
DAY 1 Defining Shyness: What Shyness Really Is | 1 | (5) | |
DAY 2 Born Shy? A Basic Question | 6 | (4) | |
DAY 3 Shyness Is Not All in Your Head: Putting It in Perspective | 10 | (4) | |
DAY 4 Understanding Approach-Avoidance Conflict: The Source of the Pain | 14 | (4) | |
DAY 5 The Slow-to-Warm-Up Tendency: Time to Adjust | 18 | (4) | |
DAY 6 Understanding the Comfort Zone: The Role of Routine | 22 | (4) | |
DAY 7 Shyness and Self-Esteem: It's Not What You Think | 26 | (4) | |
DAY 8 Assessing Your Shyness: What Makes You Shy? | 30 | (4) | |
DAY 9 Becoming Successfully Shy: Taking Control of Your Shyness | 34 | (4) | |
DAY 10 Making the Right Decisions: The Key to Your Success | 38 | (4) | |
DAY 11 Defining Shyness of the Mind: The Most Critical Component | 42 | (4) | |
DAY 12 Understanding the Role of Anxiety: A Misunderstood Emotion | 46 | (4) | |
DAY 13 Strategies for Controlling Your Anxiety: The Anxiety Advantage | 50 | (4) | |
DAY 14 Narcissism and Selective Attention Deficit: The Problem with Excessive Self-Consciousness | 54 | (4) | |
DAY 15 Controlling Excessive Self-Consciousness: Promoting Realistic Self-Evaluations | 58 | (5) | |
DAY 16 Explaining Attributional Process: Playing the Blame Game | 63 | (4) | |
DAY 17 Common Attributional Errors: Losing the Blame Game | 67 | (4) | |
DAY 18 Controlling Attributional Errors: Playing the Blame Game Fairly | 71 | (5) | |
DAY 19 Common Social Comparison Errors: When Uncertainty Promotes Unfairness | 76 | (4) | |
DAY 20 Controlling Unfair Social Comparisons: Promoting Self-Confidence with Fair Comparisons | 80 | (4) | |
DAY 21 Expanding Your Comfort Zone: Gently Widening Your Range of Experiences | 84 | (4) | |
DAY 22 Performing Social Reconnaissance: Planning and Preparing for Your Social Success | 88 | (5) | |
DAY 23 Taking Advantage of the Warm-Up Process: Actively Responding to the Passage of Time | 93 | (5) | |
DAY 24 Preventing Self-Medication: Avoiding the Trap of Liquid Extroversion | 98 | (4) | |
DAY 25 Practicing Quick Talk: Setting the Stage for Conversational Contacts | 102 | (5) | |
DAY 26 Taking Advantage of Rejection: Finding Useful Information | 107 | (5) | |
DAY 27 Focusing on Your Social Successes: Creating Opportunities for Personal Enhancement | 112 | (4) | |
DAY 28 Helping Other Shy Individuals: Becoming a Host to Humanity | 116 | (4) | |
DAY 29 Becoming a Volunteer: Helping Yourself by Helping Others | 120 | (4) | |
DAY 30 Living the Successfully Shy Life: A Day-to-Day Adventure | 124 | (5) | |
Epilogue: Living a Successfully Shy Life: A Style of Life for Going Beyond Shyness and into the World | 129 | (4) | |
Selected Bibliography | 133 | (2) | |
About the Author | 135 |

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