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How to be Yourself in Public (and not care what others think about you)

teacher avatar Hasan Siraj, Self-Improvement Coach

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    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:16

    • 2.

      Why do we care?

      2:03

    • 3.

      How to unwind the fear in your head

      7:31

    • 4.

      There is a rush to improve (Rejection is better than regret)

      3:01

    • 5.

      Closing tips and final steps to take

      3:13

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Literally everyone has a level of social nervousness. Maybe you want to be more outgoing in public and take more risks, but you're too afraid too. You're scared of other people's judgements of you.

In this course we look at how exactly we can eliminate this irrational behaviour. So you can take the steps needed to become the social butterfly you want to be.

My YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/Hasaaan
My discord server - https://discord.gg/fCy4W5F3dT

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Hasan Siraj

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I'm a self-improvement coach who cuts the bs out.

 

90% of what you hear is not going to help you. I'll skip all that and focus on the 10% that will actually make a difference in your life.

 

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1. Introduction: If you've been out in public before, you've probably had the desire to do something. Maybe it's something like even at the club and you wanted to bust out a dance move or maybe he just wanted to go speak to somebody. But because of the fear of what other people around you may think about it, you don't. You will solve it and you go home. Regretting not doing. Maybe you wanted to approach a goal, you thought it was attractive. Or maybe you just wanted to start a conversation, or maybe you wanted to just mess around a little bit. I have a bit of fun, but you were too uptight about what other people, other strange is that you may, that you don't even know what they may or may not think about you. They may give you a way to look that has stopped you from doing what you really wanted to do. If that's a problem that you suffered with and you want to overcome that, then that's exactly what we're going to tackle in this course. That is the exact thing we're going to get over that social anxiety of what other people may think about you. You can act however you want and as free as you want. I'll see you guys in the first lesson. 2. Why do we care?: Now before we can really get good at not carrying it all and just being able to do whatever we want. The first thing we have to understand is, why do we care? Why do we care about what people may or may not think about us? It's annoying because in your mind, do you know that nothing bad will happen if you do that thing, nothing will really happen. But it's the, it's the thought that something might that stops us. Now the reason to why we care is quite simple. Where people were inclined to. We're social animals, that's how we're built. Your mind is telling you not to do thing X, because doing thing X may alter how you're perceived. It's a defense mechanism. It keeps me protected. It keeps you in your comfort zone. But we wanted to be somebody who can grow. We want to be somebody you could take our lives to the next level. Now, in the past, this defense mechanism was very helpful when we were tribes hunting for food. That defense mechanism was natural. It kept us safe. It kept us not doing stupid things that would potentially endanger ourselves. That fight or flight reaction. That's what it is. It's a fight or flight reaction that's kind of what it is in the modern era. But we're not already endangered like that anymore. Now it becomes more of a hindrance. It's actually going to stop you from doing what you really want to do. It's going to stop you from really expressing yourself and how you really want to be. It prevents your, prevents you. Now, that is the reason why we care. It's been ingrained in our DNA naturally as people. Now we need to figure out how to deactivate it and how we can really start to diverge away from this act. How we want to not care as much. Let's look at that in more detail in the next video, I'll see you guys. 3. How to unwind the fear in your head: How to unwind the fit in your head. Now, what's interesting about this is that I'm gonna give you an experiment to start off with. Let's say you're in a shopping mall, or let's say you are at the train station and you'll just start, you're just waiting for the train, okay? Now, I guarantee you that most people care so much about what other people may think about them, that they don't have the confidence to just do this. Leave their hands for 20 seconds. They are so scared that they're gonna be looked at as a weirdo. They can't even do this. They can't even do that. Do you know saying that needs to be tackled? That's your mind playing tricks on you. That's your mind overthinking everything. You don't even have the ability to just do this. Like it's a lot of people around walk like this for ten seconds. Yes, people are gonna look at you weirdly. People are gonna think, What is this guy doing? And it stops there. Do you understand that in the past, these thoughts would be a survival mechanism, but now they're just irrational. Now the counter, what you really want to do, we need to really figure out how we can get these thoughts to go away. And I'm gonna give you a spoiler. They're never gonna go away even now I get the thought that people don't think about. Do you know what I say? You know what I said is that thought? I say. So Well, let them think I'm a weirdo. Because at the end of the day, you have this one voice. It's very irrational and you have to learn to deal with it with the rationalist. You need to have this, this is currently, this is a rational voice. This is the rational one. This is where I currently starts. It doesn't massive imbalance overtime, it becomes narrower and narrower and eventually it'll list one has to overtake now are all the time and may end up getting like this where it switches in-between. But for most people, when they start right down here, they start right down there where they're irrational voice is just overpowering it so much that they are literally crippled when it comes to pushing themselves socially. The way that you do this is you purposely embarrass yourself. That sounds really weird. Okay, That sounds really weird. But let me tell you that when you purposely embarrass yourself, you don't take things seriously anymore. You learn to let loose. You don't need drug, you don't need alcohol. You just need to work on your mind and your mental space. That's how you do it in a way that isn't detrimental to your life. And actually what it does is it adds so much value to your life. So I'm gonna give you that example. We're holding our hands up and over 20 seconds, people are gonna think your weight. That's the thought you're gonna have. You're gonna have the thought that people are going to think that way too. Now this is a thought that I have in my mind that I used to counter it. Okay. They're gonna think, I'm weird. Am I going to get hurt from doing this? The answer is no. It's anyone else gonna get hot. The answer is no. What do I gain from it? I socially push myself. It may seem kind of weird. That is socially pushing myself. But you are slowly moving into somebody who doesn't care what they think as much, you still have the full above. What I'm getting at is that the thought of what people may or may not think about you will not be as overpower. You will learn to overpower that thought. You'll always care to some extent, but you can learn to overpower our thought and that is what this is all about. That is what this is about. So in that example of holding my hands up, I'll come back to that right now. I would say that this is a bit uncomfortable for me. If it's a bit uncomfortable for you, if it makes you cringe a little bit when you think about doing it, that is why you have to do it as that is how you grow. When you feed a little bit, cringe about doing a certain thing in public. That isn't you have to do when you feel a bit uncomfortable about doing that thing in public. That is when you have to do it. And what I say to myself is that I'm gonna do this thing. People are going to probably think it's a bit with, and then they're going to forget about it in ten minutes. They're going to forget about it in five-minutes. Because guess what? Everyone is the main character in their own movie. Every one is the main character in their own life. No one is really watching you brought no one really cares what you're doing. You can do this as spin around in circles. People will think you're a lunatic and that's it. But guess what? Most people haven't got the self confidence to do that. When you're able to do that, when you're able to take yourself as a bit of a joke, mess around a little bit. It gives you so much more freedom. It gives you so much more for you to understand that you know what people aren't that interested in you. Even if they are, they're probably going to forget in about five minutes. This rationale, this sphere. It just doesn't make sense logically, it doesn't make sense. If you're still fine, his fear, this impulse. You're like, I want to do it but I can't. Maybe you're in the club and you want to thoughts and you're scared if people would laugh at you and everything. Yeah, There's thoughts are never gonna go away, but you can overpower them. That's what this is all about. If you want some extra motivation on this in the next lesson, I'm going to go over a little bit more on this, but just to summarize this lesson, okay? You're going to have an irrational side. You're going to have a rational side. When you stop. How everyone's thoughts, how I started is the irrational one is always, always overpowering it. What you have to do is you have to compensate with your rational side and give the council argument on why this is going to help you. You convince yourself with that. You convince yourself with your other persons are pushed themselves socially. That's why I did. That's why I did and it worked. And it is working and I'm getting better. And eventually the rational side starts to almost equalize. And you'll have moments when you feel like you can do anything. I don't have moments where you didn't really feel like it and it will often like sway like this. I'm here right now who are sometimes I feel like I'm ready can do it. And others, I didn't really feel like it at all. But it started to come like this. Say it's rising and then let's kinda like this. Then slowly, slowly, the rational one just gets farther and farther away until it's always winning. And so it's always overpowering. I hold that concept makes sense. In the next lesson. I'm going to give you guys more reasons on why. Why do you need to welcome this far and how an extra motivation to really push through the fear. Because I'm telling you this is one of the things that made me grow as a person, unlike anything else, and made me grow. It forced me to become more socially, socially able, more socially mobile. I can just say, I can feel, I can do more of what I wanted to do without filter, without a facade, or I can just be how I want to be. I'll see you guys in the next lesson. 4. There is a rush to improve (Rejection is better than regret): One of the biggest motivations that I've had to level up the skill. Level up its ability to not be influenced by what other people think or may not think is to fear that, you know what I haven't got all the time in the water. I haven't got the luxury. We haven't got the luxury to wish. We have to take action. Do you know why rejection is better than regret? I wanted to write that down on a piece of paper five times. Rejection is better than regret. When I say rejection, I mean, in the concept of socializing, rejection, rejection can be people thinking you're weird. It is better to try and to fail them to not try all 100% and it's not even failing. People thinking you're weird is not failing. Failing, I believe is not even trying, not even having the will to do it. Because that regret linger in your mind for the rest of your life. The what if what if I became more confident person that will torment you for the rest, your life already started to torment me. That voice got so loud, that voiceover Greg got so large that it forced me to take action. It forced me to push myself. And it should force you to do the same thing. That's how to do it. You have to force yourself to push. In these situations where you don't feel like doing it. That's the only way you can grow because they were getting older, man, we're getting older. I'm nearly 19. I'm going to be 19 years old soon. I'm going to be 19 and I'm gonna be 24. I know what, I'm going to be 25 or 30. And I would've had all these opportunities throughout my life that I could have pushed myself, but I didn't guess what when I get down, I'm going to kick myself. Then we'll opportunities when I was 1516 but didn't take it because I was too scared. Guess what? I don't want that to happen anymore. I don't want that to happen to you either. You have the white cop. You have to wake up and be like, You know what? The person I wanted to be. I wanted to be that classic confident person who can do what he wants to say, what he wants, acts freely without facadism, without, without a front on, I can just act how I want. If you want to be that person and you have to make it happen, you have to consciously make it happen. Otherwise, you'll live with the eternal regret not being the guy who did that. And it will know your professional life. The best time to start was yesterday. The second best time is now. The final lesson. I'm going to give you guys some practical steps to start implementing this in your own life. Let's take a look at that. And also you can take the project description to see practical steps of what we can start doing right now. See you guys. 5. Closing tips and final steps to take: My closing thoughts, not closing tips for you guys. Now if you've gone through all the course, thank you for having to look. I hope it's been helpful. And what should you do now? You understand the theory, you understand the reason of why do we need to work on this and how we're gonna work on this. I'll give you a bit more detail on that. How are we going to welcome this? The way that I did it was I purposely embarrassed myself in public. That is how I did. It. Sounds kind of weird. I know sounds a bit weird. Sounds a bit like, why would you ever do that? Well, the way you do this is you progressively overload how embarrassing situation is. Now, for example, setting easiest to start is just put your hands up like this, as we said, in public. Walk around with your hands like this, we'll go on with your hands. So I just decided you arms either side, you pick, we're gonna look at you. It may seem a bit embarrassing, but guess what? You end up not carrying as much. You use something that is a bit more embarrassing in a bit more and you build it up. So you're home at the level that I'm at once as like a dare almost for YouTube video, what I did was I went on the escalator is coming down like a shopping mall and I got my phone out and I pretend that I was logging and I was like, What sub YouTube. Welcome back to my either that as a joke, right? And it was about a good 101520 people looking at me. I didn't quite loudly, and yes, that was very embarrassing. But guess what? Guess what? I socially pushed myself in that instance. Most people can't do that. It will set you apart. You learn to let loose a little bit and take things so seriously learned to enjoy yourself a little bit more. Enjoy the little things in life of him. We get a bit more fun now saying, yeah, it needs to drink, drugs, anything you can just, you can just have fun just being yourself. That's what this does. It allows you to just have fun being yourself like when you are out in public. Just something as simple as going for a fist bump with a stranger. They may, they may not reciprocate, they may just ignore it and walk away. May look a bit embarrassing. What, who cares? Who really cares about as a try and fail than not try at all. I wholeheartedly agree that what you need to do is you need to socially overload how embarrassing each thing is until you work your way out and eventually things like become embarrassing anymore. I can go talk to a stranger than normally. I'll be like, Okay, so what, who cares? Get on with your life whenever the luxury to think of? What if they say no? What if they say, Well, what if they think I were who cares, bro? Do what you wanted to do? Because that's what Mark has. At the end of the day. If you've found this helpful, check out my YouTube channel where I actually demonstrate doing these embarrassing things and just having fun with people, having fun with the public. That's what I do on my channel. I tried to do it in a way that's entertaining and educational. You can join the Discord server below. I'll leave all the links, everything. I hope you guys found this helpful. Check out my other courses if you're interested and I'll see you guys in the next one. Take care.