I was to discover that the neighborhoods just across the fence are not representative of the town at large, which is a lesson in how to know another country: stay longer, travel deeper, overcome timidity.
One way to overcome timidity is to recognize, promote and delegate core duties to those people on your team who can deliver a louder, bolder message.
True, one kind of fear seems, provisionally, to have been overcome: the timidity of Democratic politicians scarred by the failure of the original Clinton health plan.
And Edgar Bozzi, 16, a senior, had became a ferocious inside linebacker this summer after the coach gave him a new, more protective helmet, which helped him overcome a timidity that had held him back since a concussion in a previous season.
During this period, however, there continued to exist a powerful workers' movement in the form of social democracy and communism which, had it been able to overcome the timidity of the former and the strategic incompetence of the latter, could have functioned as a bulwark against the rise of the extreme right.
England, who is mentored by double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes, has employed a sports psychologist to help her overcome her timidity.
But in order to summon the political will to achieve it, we have to overcome the timidity that flows from economic desperation.
De Havilland earned an Academy Award for her portrayal of Catherine, who overcomes her timidity by the film's end.
His life story may be moving: a blind, ruddily handsome Italian of modest background takes up singing late, overcomes his timidity and achieves a dream-come-true career.
To do that, Democrats will have to overcome their natural timidity.
Only at the start of the 20th century, as executive-branch authority expanded under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, did timidity overcome the Senate.
