I don't recall this advice word for word because, at the time, I was actually trying to block it out. It was 8th grade, in creative writing class, when my teacher would threaten to fail me because my shyness prevented me from presenting (on the second week of school, mind you). 15 minutes at best she was preaching to me about what a failure my shyness made me, the rest of the class and back home I was crying. She was fired, people understood my shyness was a debilitating and unnatural problem, and thus didn't pressure me, not like she had. Now though, some three, four years later, I've come to realize she was right. My shyness would get me no where, and that punch in the face made me stronger.
Sometimes it takes your enemy to make you realize what you really need.
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