Are You Socially Anxious?

If you're socially anxious, one of the things you should do is pay way more attention to the person you're talking to. And then by listening to the person and watching yourself interact, you're also generating new abstract information that enables you to conceptialize the world in a different way. That's as if you have latent software that will only be turned on if you go into the situation where that's necessary. But there are genetic switches inside your brain which can turn this off or on at any time. So don't just sit there thinking about what you're going to say next; instead put yourself in situations where you need to transform.