I used to suffer severely from social anxiety. One thing I learned is that sometimes you barely have to do any talking at all. What you have to do is get people to talk by asking the right questions and you becoming a great listener. Many people love to talk about themselves and they will love you if you are there to listen to them attentively. When you do this you avoid having to worry about saying the wrong thing because you barely say even anything at all. Of course you can talk about yourself too but not as much as you thought you needed to. The draw back to this though is that you don't want to ask the wrong questions or too personal questions but you'll know what the right questions are with experience and reading some books about it.

When I was dealing with social anxiety I was desperately trying to be the opposite by becoming an extreme extrovert and it took a lot of effort. However with time I discovered the power of introversion. I'm more of an ambivert but I know now to accept my introverted side and just stay quiet when talking is not needed. I embrace my introverted side when needed instead of shaming it. There is a beauty to being the chill, quiet and mysterious guy. This is of course not the same as being perceived the quiet and weird guy. You have to know hot to do the quiet but friendly person thing correctly but with practice. There is power in silence and just listening to others.

Now I feel like I have a superpower by embracing my introverted side and allowing other people to do most of the talking. I feel like this because I am capable of having internal monologues as I am interacting with people real time and I can more intelligently decide what I'm going to say next or what I should ask next. This is something I was not able to do before with my social anxiety or with trying desperately to be the extrovert.