We Are Shy and We Are Proud and We Are Scared...
... shitless. According to researchers at Harvard, shy folks have different activity in the part of the brain called the amygdala than those outgoing, bubbly, popular, small-talking, insufferably easy going “other people”, who co-inhabit our planet.
It is the amygdala that is stimulated when we are afraid, or need to be vigilant. Mostly nowadays it is activated when we are cornered at a cocktail party desperately trying to think of something to say that won’t sound completely stupid. Thanks God for that amygdala!! Here is their report.