Clip: Chris Magee on Overcoming Social Anxiety

Hey, I wasn't always that socially anxious depressed person. I'd actually been quite the opposite growing up, very like extroverted person, very happy. And so I knew it was possible, but I just needed to figure out how to get back there. And so it was just kind of a simple, I mean, it sounds simple to me now, but in the moment it wasn't. It was just like, who do I look up to and why? What are the qualities of these people? And so one of those goals was like, all right, well, I want to get my confidence back. So what is like the farthest extent that I think of confidence? Well, I think public speaking to a big crowd about something vulnerable would probably be the scariest thing I can imagine right now. So what I did is I told myself, all right, you have two years to give like a TED talk basically. And I said that goal. I followed them on Instagram that day from like my bedroom at home where I was like kicked out of school. And I was like, I'm going to work every day to get to the point of confidence where I could actually do this.