Comments on: The Shy Person’s Guide to Talking to Strangers http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:44:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: 2009 life http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-75700 2009 life Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:50:46 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-75700 You should be the next U.S president. You should be the next U.S president.

]]> By: 2009 life http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-75699 2009 life Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:49:12 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-75699 Kudo's to you're stunning intelect Jesse, I agree. Kudo’s to you’re stunning intelect Jesse, I agree.

]]> By: 2009 life http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-75698 2009 life Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:46:08 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-75698 Hey, anybody out there likes a dry sense of humor, maybe that's what you have. I actully thought it was humorous just to read about you saying that you thought that you weren't funny. Follow? Anyhoo, you're gonna knock 'em dead with that explaination if they ever ask you for a good joke. Hey, anybody out there likes a dry sense of humor, maybe that’s what you have. I actully thought it was humorous just to read about you saying that you thought that you weren’t funny. Follow? Anyhoo, you’re gonna knock ‘em dead with that explaination if they ever ask you for a good joke.

]]> By: 2009 life http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-75697 2009 life Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:39:58 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-75697 Word. You couldn't have put it any better John K. School us some more. Word. You couldn’t have put it any better John K. School us some more.

]]> By: 2009 life http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-75696 2009 life Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:36:41 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-75696 It seems to be totally true that a shy guy is always more socially acceptable than a shy girl, this is kind of my battle, why is this so? Girls are always seen as the conversation queens or the multitasking gossippers while the men bashfully try to conjure up a slick line to reel the women in or to make a joke among other guys. It's not too attractive to be a shy girl, that's the thing I get out of it, somebody tell me I'm wrong here. It seems to be totally true that a shy guy is always more socially acceptable than a shy girl, this is kind of my battle, why is this so? Girls are always seen as the conversation queens or the multitasking gossippers while the men bashfully try to conjure up a slick line to reel the women in or to make a joke among other guys.
It’s not too attractive to be a shy girl, that’s the thing I get out of it, somebody tell me I’m wrong here.

]]> By: farouk http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-74846 farouk Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:41:00 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-74846 that's an interesting article, hope u write part 2 of it that’s an interesting article, hope u write part 2 of it

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-73237 Jennifer Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:47:06 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-73237 What type of careers have all of you had? My mom is wanting to find a new job, she has a bachelors in biology and doesn't like where she's at right now. I am also trying to find out what to do for a career and am very shy. Any pointers would help. What type of careers have all of you had? My mom is wanting to find a new job, she has a bachelors in biology and doesn’t like where she’s at right now. I am also trying to find out what to do for a career and am very shy. Any pointers would help.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-72688 Elizabeth Mon, 25 May 2009 01:45:37 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-72688 I love your articles on shyness; they really help me feel better about the whole issue, like it's something I can and will overcome if I try. One thing I find sometimes it that I get so caught up in doing my own thing that even when people try to talk to me, I'm not really that into it. It's not that I don't like them; it's just easier for me to read a book than to make small talk, and in this case easier=more fun. I love your articles on shyness; they really help me feel better about the whole issue, like it’s something I can and will overcome if I try. One thing I find sometimes it that I get so caught up in doing my own thing that even when people try to talk to me, I’m not really that into it. It’s not that I don’t like them; it’s just easier for me to read a book than to make small talk, and in this case easier=more fun.

]]> By: john k http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-72500 john k Sun, 10 May 2009 16:23:53 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-72500 Thinking is good, but shyness is an unfortunate byproduct of thinking. All I am are my thoughts, but many of those "thoughts" are music and colors and wordless impressions, so it's impossible to be all that I am and then translate that into a working model for presentation to strangers. So, by letting any of this matter at all, I don't define myself. Everybody else defines me. I hand that power over to them. Moments of faces and comments, and longer moments alone spent reflecting on those moments. That is what adds up to what I am. What separates me. Hilariously, all I'm doing is adding up tiny slices from other people's day, and interpreting the sum total as me. Meanwhile, we're stuck to this rock spinning in a vacuum. Thinking is good, but shyness is an unfortunate byproduct of thinking. All I am are my thoughts, but many of those “thoughts” are music and colors and wordless impressions, so it’s impossible to be all that I am and then translate that into a working model for presentation to strangers. So, by letting any of this matter at all, I don’t define myself. Everybody else defines me. I hand that power over to them. Moments of faces and comments, and longer moments alone spent reflecting on those moments. That is what adds up to what I am. What separates me.

Hilariously, all I’m doing is adding up tiny slices from other people’s day, and interpreting the sum total as me. Meanwhile, we’re stuck to this rock spinning in a vacuum.

]]> By: saleh http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/comment-page-2/#comment-72210 saleh Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:20:48 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-shy-persons-guide-to-talking-to-strangers/#comment-72210 My condition is worse I went my whole education to a single-sex schools and even outside the school my small town was very conservative, when I moved to the university which is an American university in an arab country I am really stuck and for three years I know a total of zero girls and this even affected my friendship with boys in the uni My condition is worse I went my whole education to a single-sex schools and even outside the school my small town was very conservative, when I moved to the university which is an American university in an arab country I am really stuck and for three years I know a total of zero girls and this even affected my friendship with boys in the uni

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