Website owner:  James Miller

Causes of Boldness and Shyness

   What lies underneath boldness (in the brazen, forward, impudent 
   sense)?  What is the underlying cause of boldness?  Isn't it 
   an attitude of disrespect for others, an attitude of contempt 
   for them?  Or is it an attitude of disrespect and contempt for 
   authority, rules, restrictions, and restraints (especially 
   moral) that is the cause?  Or is it both?  What gives a person 
   respect for others?  Isn't it strictness and discipline in 
   one's upbringing?  Isn't it parents that are strict, that 
   require obedience, that demand respect?  What is the connection 
   between respectfulness and shyness?  Doesn't respectfulness 
   carry with it the idea of a degree of fear and shyness?  
   Doesn't respectfulness imply a degree of shyness? 


   Aug 1990