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Rethinking Rejection: Why You Should Embrace it
Defeat is not the end of the road, giving up is.
“No, thank you”
“You’re perfect, but It’s not what we looking for at the moment”
“it’s not you, it’s me”
Anyone who has lived enough has been there. It has happened to us all. It always starts the same way. You have high hopes for a job that has the potential to become a dream one, and then you never heard back after the interview. You’re looking for investors to launch your ‘latest-edgy’ start-up, but an angel investor denies you financial support on the spot. You met someone ‘cute’ you like a lot, but that person cowardly disappears after the first date.
No reason to belabor the obvious. Rejection sucks. Period. Yes, it sucks the energy out of one’s soul. Puts one in a downward spiral of emotional discomfort and gets the best of us. The pain of being excluded is so real, it could even become physical. Rejection gets into our psyche, mood, and cognition. Rejection hurts like being punched in the gut with brass knuckles, especially after you’ve taken a leap of faith at your own risk.
“AARGH! AARGH!” That is the sound of frustration after defeat has invaded your body unannounced. All of the sudden your body is numbed with self-doubting thoughts, and whatever…
