I think Gal is beautiful and this video sent me on a stream of her interviews. She sounds very sweet and kind. Her english has caused some laughs in a few vids I saw. I really like her. After watching a few interviews of her and her shyness this makes this video even cuter. She is blushing. *promote for 2 more votes.

Quite true, it's particularly chic for some people to go around telling everyone how much of a "Geek" they are these days, but both the video and the book it's based on (I've read it) state that nobody is 100% one or the other. There are probably lots of people out there who manage to function like an extrovert much of the time but in reality are pretty introverted in nature and maintaining that extroverted facade can be very exhausting.
I'd consider myself to be an introvert and I also suffer from social anxiety or even shyness in certain social circumstances, and I certainly don't consider myself "special", at least not in a good way.
The book does a pretty good job of not making judgements about either one being good or bad but does outline the pros and cons of each personality type.

Introvert, mixed with a good dose of (actively suppressed) shyness.

i don't feel like there has to be a difference in the rhetoric and the reality. and find that statement kind of cynical.

my kids are allowed all kinds of crazy freedoms with their hair and dress and expression and creativity and language and their interests are almost always highly encouraged by me and my tribe.

princesses weren't a non existant part of playtime when my daughter was younger, at that point i thought it was an archetype and all little girls go through that phase. and i still kind of think that. but i think it can be overly nurtured in ways that are obnoxious. anyway, princess phase was short lived and generally took a back seat to her desire to be a fairy or a piano playing shark. i could think of million reasons to hate barbies, but i decided not to, she has barbies ... she just isnt real interested in them. bratz dolls are actually just amazingly whorey and negative and are just way overboard, so.. fuck no. she's too old for them now anyway.

my biggest issue is over commercialization, so we simply have no television. they watch movies and what not. and actually i feel like limiting the television and commercialization has helped them development loads of creativity. which is actively encouraged around here. it's totally possible to imbue your kids with your values without forcing your political agenda down their throats.

i'm extremely interested in how much of my kids personalities and social skills are due to their lack of exposure to what's "trendy" and how much of it is just inherent. . my niece is the same age as my daughter, she's been hooked on the disney channel since birth. "fitting in" and keeping up with trends and being "like" her peers is extremely important to her. my kid couldn't care less. but that was also the difference between her mom (my sister) and i when we were kids.

i used to worry more about my son being able to fit in with more mainstreamed peers. seeing as we have no television, he knows 0 about spiderman or transformers or sports, he has 0 male role model to emulate and has been raised entirely by a bunch of women. but he's having no trouble "fitting in" with other boys. my daughter on the other hand is having loads of issues with socialization. she has no interest in what other 8 year old girls seem to be interested in. honestly, at this point, if hannah montana would help her make friends, i'd consider getting cable. but she just thinks it's stupid.

i'm interested to know if that's her just being a mature, heavily artistic, tomboy, with a dose of shyness or if the persona's of little girls are just so entirely shaped by television and trends that she's finding it impossible to relate them without it. i suspect its probably a bit of both. and i find the latter extremely sad.

>> ^blankfist:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://kids.videosift.com/member/spoco2" title="member since August 21st, 2006" class="profilelink">spoco2, good point. But I'd have to wonder why I'd want to stop him or her from following what they want even if it's trendy. Is it because of how I feel about it? If so, that's not a very good reason at all.
I dislike commercialization like the next guy, but is it fair for me to push my own personal politics onto my child? I say no. Sure, wearing high heels at five may be a bit extreme, but most parents use those extreme examples as justification to stifle their children's self-expression at less extremes. In other words, the rhetoric is "my five year old daughter is not wearing heels" but then in reality it's "my ten year old son is not getting a faux-hawk/mohawk" or "my daughter is not getting a Barbie doll".

It might have been a lone mother trying getting food for her cubs>> ^Skeeve:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Don't know much about coyote behavior. Is he playing, or trying to take pot shots for a wound? Seems a little aggressive for play, and a little bold for taking pot shots. None the less, very scary. Should be glad it wasn't wolfs.

While wolves tend to be more skittish around humans, coyotes tend to have less or no shyness around humans. They may seem like simply wild dogs (even playful ones at first sight), they are surprisingly adaptable killers.
I think this one probably saw it for what it was, a human walking alone, and was testing to see if it would be an easy meal. Two coyotes attacked and killed a 19 year old woman out hiking in Nova Scotia last year and coyote attacks have been rising over the last decade or so. A large percentage of those (~37%) are actually predatory attacks with intent to kill.
What this guy should have done, from the second it started approaching him, is make himself look as big as he could (instead of crouching down to its level), yell loudly and back away. When it got close to nip/bite him he should have swatted it.
...And holding out his open hand looked like a good way to lose a finger.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Don't know much about coyote behavior. Is he playing, or trying to take pot shots for a wound? Seems a little aggressive for play, and a little bold for taking pot shots. None the less, very scary. Should be glad it wasn't wolfs.


While wolves tend to be more skittish around humans, coyotes tend to have less or no shyness around humans. They may seem like simply wild dogs (even playful ones at first sight), they are surprisingly adaptable killers.

I think this one probably saw it for what it was, a human walking alone, and was testing to see if it would be an easy meal. Two coyotes attacked and killed a 19 year old woman out hiking in Nova Scotia last year and coyote attacks have been rising over the last decade or so. A large percentage of those (~37%) are actually predatory attacks with intent to kill.

What this guy should have done, from the second it started approaching him, is make himself look as big as he could (instead of crouching down to its level), yell loudly and back away. When it got close to nip/bite him he should have swatted it.

...And holding out his open hand looked like a good way to lose a finger.

Cases where kicking someone in a place that could potentially hurt them badly, such as the head or ribs, would to me include: They are actively attempting to hurt anything that can feel pain whether it be an officer, civilian, or a dog/cat/whatever. Or they have just committed an act of harm against another. Guy in video at the end appeared to ask a question, then uniform officer tells him to get down, they both jump on him and he appears confused by one cop answering questions like he's a person and the other screaming like he's a criminal.

The guy at the last part of the video isn't complying but I can't tell if he's saying something or not. Or if he's just too drunk/stoned or scared or mentally handicapped. Personally if I just watched them beat someone else, I don't think I'd want to have my hands strapped behind my back and take the risk of them deciding to kick me too.

If two police officers can't wrestle the guy down and get his arms behind his back with their combined strength, then they should hold him at gun point or taser him because he's too much for them to handle and call for more help.

Unless they've had to arrest this guy a dozen times before, they simply don't know if the guy is medically messed up in the head or physically where beating him isn't going to change his ability to understand or perform their actions.

My brother is mentally challenged enough that he is very slow to react and often times doesn't comprehend many requests or commands made of him until you repeat it a different way or show him. Or if he's scared/caught off guard, he just stops processing completely and it looks like he's trying to be a smart ass because he just gives you a blank stare. He also has epilepsy. He was told by an officer to put a brightly colored card in his wallet stating his name/address/medications/medical conditions so he could give to officers if something were to occur. It doesn't do any good when they are ready to throw you to the ground the minute you reach into your pocket, especially when you just don't understand the situation like my brother often has problems with. He tries to be compliant, but most cops won't give him the chance or try to explain because they just assume they have a trouble maker on their hands and get ready to "handle it". Bottom line is, people have problems you can't often tell by just looking at them. Not all mentally handicap have physical characteristics to distinguish them. Most people don't realize it about my brother until they've spoken with him awhile or I tell them before hand, they just assume it's shyness or social awkwardness.

No one should be kicked in the head or ribs. I can understand kicking someone's legs out from under them, or kicking their arms/hands away from their body to keep them from reaching for stuff.

And I may be mistaken, but it appears the non-yellow jacket officer at the end is smiling. That is not a situation where most people should be smiling. I could see if the guy is just crazy as hell, but not after your buddy has kicked him a couple times and you just had problems getting him to obey your orders.

videosiftbannedme:
Paging, Dr. Zimbardo....Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Somehow, I don't think anyone in this video needs help with shyness...

Yeah the dialogue seemed a little fake to me, but that could've been camera shyness. I mean, the doll figurine looked real enough... maybe this was legit.

Not sure if this is going to help secure the pending marriage, however

Funny thing about this women might not know, is that many times, we'll have the opportunity right there in front of us (another example is the bent-over-down-the-blouse, or the squatting-whoops-I-see-crack!), and actually be unable to control the urge to look away out of shyness/shame/embarrassment/fear of being caught. This is somewhat reflected in this video.

Then of course later, we're horribly angry with ourselves for not simply staring and soaking every second of it up.


...And still other times, we get caught on purpose.

i agree, though it could just be shyness (it is often mistaken as other things).
i really didn't get anything from this docu, if he was going to attempt presenting one why didn't he do one on his area of expertise, particle physics (though when he did talk about that kind of thing here he seemed to find it hard stringing two words together!)

there's a list of his papers here for proof that he probably is a really good physicist:
http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+AUTHOR+COX,%20Brian+AND+EPRINT+hep-ph

http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-you-suffer-from-shyness-Try-Tequila *discard

Yes Rauschenberg is great
The story is the artwork: alcohol, shyness, tough to erase, a whole month of erasing..

Those who have more Rauschenberg vids, post them!

In many cases, I wouldn't say it's apathy or disinterest or anything like that;

1. Many people are not assertive enough to stop and watch a musician, especially if they are the only one doing so
2. Many won't stop because they don't want to be expected to pay a donation
3. They have places to go or they wouldn't be there in the first place
4. Many look at street performers as street people, which they'd rather avoid altogether, perhaps because they might be coughed on or have to face reality a bit

Basically, although a certain percentage actually would like to stop, they don't out of shyness, embarrassment, time demands, etc. I stop for such things whenever I see it (I'm usually not in a rush, and believe that life is about smelling the roses), but then again I am a musician so I'm biased.

Also, this can happen anywhere, not just at a subway. At the same time, if you put him in the middle of an area he will be appreciated, by interested people, oh you'd better believe he'll be noticed.

Anyway, he gets simply brilliant sound out of it for sure. I'm not familiar enough though - are these originals? I love the harmonized parts especially. Thanks for the name, I'll look around. Great post!

Edit: nevermind, the article gives the needed info.

I wish the major players would stop their shyness and make their own video.. I'm talking about StarWarsKid and NumaNumaGuy. This would be awesome if all the big players got involved in a giant We Are The World - NeutralityAID