Can a Capable, but Extremely Shy Person Overcome Their Social Limitations?

Creativity is a high risk, high return game. Most of the time you're going to be poor, and really poor and probably miserable,. except for a tiny fraction of people wholl become fantastically successful. So can a capable, but extremely shy person overcome their social limitations to do well in the workplace on their own? Or do they need professional help? What kind? Well, i would say that you are already 80 % of the way to solving your problem - find a behavior psychologist. Find one who's trained at an american psychological association approved school with a research background. See if you can talk to them. And then you can make a plan for expanding your social ability.