Onder Hassan, Author at Tiny Buddha

Posts by Onder Hassan

Onder Hassan is passionate about building Self-Confidence and has started a Self-Confidence blog to help others do the same. He is also a published author of How To Cure Social Anxiety: An Alternative Guide. Sign up for his FREE YOU 2.0 course for a simple strategy to overcoming your fears to take you to the next level. He can be found on Google+

Transform Your Confidence by Learning to Approach New People

By Onder Hassan

“As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.” ~Eckhart Tolle

I remember it like it was yesterday—sitting in the corner of a bar in Holland at a social gathering, feeling alienated because I didn’t know the people I had to mingle with. After all, they were friends of my girlfriend at the time.

My worries had consumed me and I didn’t know where to begin. I wondered: Should I pluck up the courage to strike up a conversation, or should I withdraw?

I realized from this experience that I lacked …