Can one over come shyness

Yes, absolutely! I did. It comes when you find something that you are passionate about and when you know you are good at. Find your strengths and work on perfecting them. Once you are have that confidence in yourself others are automatically attracted to that. Your strength could be that you are a good and loyal friend or anything else for that matter. Doesn't matter what it is, it's a matter of having self-confidence. Good luck!

absolutely

Yes of course. As we grow older, we learn how to mingle with people and we could not be shy all the time. There will come a time that we take the responsibility of those older than us and some might even become leaders and therefore shyness has no more place. But we should always be shy to do bad things, whether we are young or old and in fact, we should not do bad things at all.

Yes it can be overcome with some work and time. Shyness is nothing more than a lack of confidence. So you need to build up your confidence. For instance... if you are too shy to go out and socialise... Get yourself some new clothes which look really good on you... while at the same time... it has to be something you feel confortable wearing. Look at yourself in the mirror and adjust whatever looks wrong until you think that you look fantastic. The first step towards overcoming your shyness... is to learn to love yourself. Providing that you have good tastes in choosing your clothes... Once you are happy with what you see in the mirror... you should have enough confidence to go out there in the big world and show people how good you look.

I have always been shy. But as the years went on I have found that I'm not as shy as I use to be. Before people thought I was stuck up. I wasn't I was just to shy to talk with anyone. The friends I made in school was because they talked to me first. Then when I got to know a person they couldn't shut me up. Yes it can be overcomed.

I don't think you "out grow" shyness. I think with a lot of hard work & determination, you can work around your shyness. To me to "out grow" something is nature and shyness is your nature. To stop being "handicapped" by your shyness you must work to change yourself. And, like any changes you make - exercising, dieting - its hard work!