There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.
Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.
Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.