Are You Ok Hearing No?

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Yene: "You have to try enough times at something to make things happen" The number of times i've been told no and rejected in my career is countless. I was always my harshest critic, so maybe some of the resilients came from those early formative years where i was just used to being extremely criticised and extremely critical of myself."

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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