Shyness The secret to your success?

When confidence appears to be everything, it’s easy to believe that if we don’t have it we should learn to “fake it till we make it”. But evidence suggests that embracing what we perceive to be our personality flaws is the real route to success. An anxious disposition, for example, has been linked both to creativity and higher levels of self-awareness, while introverted leaders have been found to be just as successful as extroverted ones.

So why are we still trying to “fix” ourselves? “There are no good or bad personality types,” says Dr Philip Corr,