This over and over again! My mother forced me to try out for drama my freshman year of high school. She bothered me all summer and said that if I tried out, I

This over and over again! My mother forced me to try out for drama my freshman year of high school. She bothered me all summer and said that if I tried out, I could choose whether to join or not, and she would never bother me again. I was shy, introverted and scared of most social situations that didn't involve my 4 highly geeky childhood friends. Going up on stage was simply not going to be something I was going to do. I agreed to go just so she would stop bothering me. Brilliantly enough, I met so many girls during the audition and even got invited to a party later that night that I sang 'happy birthday' out of key and got the part of 'man with umbrella'. It never occurred to me after that day to not do drama. (FYI: men will usually always get some chorus part, and even if you can't sing, you'll be in a group of people who can, which is 10x easier than alone) I did a musical every year throughout high school and had the _time_ of my life. It made it easy to speak in public, win business plan competitions, talk at trade shows, cold call people for sales, do interviews in front of a camera, and got me invited to 3-4 formals per year during high school. If you want to start your own company this is the most fun way to be learning extroversion.