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Rejection is common in life. We are often rejected when we want something badly, like a date or an opportunity. It’s easy to feel down and give up if you let rejection rule your life. However, if you look at it differently, there is much to learn from rejection. Rejection can make us better people as well as more successful individuals.
In this article, you’ll learn the author’s reasons for doing a 100-day rejection challenge; why we’re so scared of rejection in general; and how basketball star Stephon Marbury became famous in China.
Big Idea #1: To make your dreams come true, you have to face many obstacles, including rejection.
Imagine having a great job at a Fortune 500 company, living with your spouse and owning a 3,700-square-foot house. That sounds pretty fantastic, right? This was the author’s life before he decided to leave his cushy corporate gig for the world of entrepreneurship.
It is not so hard to get another job or promotion, but it’s difficult to pursue your lifelong dream. The author realized that he was unhappy in his old career and decided to start a new company. He gave himself six months of trial period before going back if the business failed. This deadline approach minimizes risk and ensures that you have clear goals with time limits.
To be successful, you have to learn how to handle rejection. The author had a vision for an app that would help people achieve their goals and he assembled a team of skilled engineers to build it.
The author needed an investor to get his company off the ground, but he was rejected. He rehearsed his pitch for weeks, but it didn’t work out. The rejection made him nervous and uncomfortable. To better understand rejection and deal with it, he decided to embark on a 100-day challenge where he would be rejected in some way every day for 100 days. He recorded himself being rejected as part of this experiment and blogged about it daily so that others could learn from his experience too.
Big Idea #2: To deal with rejection, you have to understand why we as humans fear it.
To start to deal with rejection, you have to first understand why it happens. For example, why is rejection a social taboo? And why does it hurt so much?
Rejection is rooted in our biology and is reinforced by instinct to stay alive. When you feel physical pain, your brain releases opioids – the body’s natural painkillers – to help cope with it. Researchers wanted to see if the same thing would happen when people were rejected.
The researchers found that the brains of people who experienced a rejection released opioids, just as they would if the person had been physically harmed.
It’s probably no surprise that rejection is one of the top fears people have. We are afraid of being rejected because it leaves us vulnerable and alone in dangerous situations. However, we need to distinguish between failure and rejection because they’re very different from each other. Failure can be blamed on factors outside our control, such as bad luck or external forces like the economy or market conditions. Rejection feels personal since another human being is saying “no” to us, but unlike failure, it has a greater effect on us than just an emotional response; rather it involves an unequal exchange between rejector and rejected person.
Rejection is often thought of as a negative thing, but it can actually be beneficial. To understand why rejection is important for success in life, we need to change our perception of it.
