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I’m always scared walking into a new gym. It’s an unfamiliar setting, and everybody is walking around so cocksure of themselves. My inner dialogue starts nagging me: Will I use a piece of equipment wrong? Will everyone laugh at me when I do? Will I violate this particular gym’s etiquette? Will everyone laugh at me when I do? Will everyone laugh at me… just because? With some Googling today, I found out this social anxiety is called the Spotlight Effect.

I hit the jackpot. At my latest job in the corporate world, there’s an executive class gym for the people who work in the building. Given the cost of gym memberships, it’s no small windfall...