How are you going to celebrate Emotion Awareness Day? And why do we need such a day in the first place? In this episode Robert Elliott talks about the benefits of emotion awareness and also shares a poem they wrote expressly to celebrate this day.

Many cultures attach great value to being sociable and extroverted, making shyness, at times, problematic. Robert Elliott, a ‘formerly shy person’, discusses how some people learn to be scared of other people and offers ways of overcoming shyness and even learning how to become more comfortable as a public speaker.