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How to embrace rejection (with Jia Jiang)

How to Be a Better Human

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When People Say No, It's Not That They're Saying No to Everything About You

When we get these professional rejections, when you pitch your idea and the investor says no. When you ask for promotion, you get rejected. When you apply for a job, when you say no. I mean, i'm giving all professional examples, but they can often feel like they're extremely personal,. Like it is the same thing of being like no one likes you. And i think something that you've done such an amazing job at through your work, is clarifying that when people say no, most of the time, it's not that they're saying no to everything about you. It doesn't necessarily reflect how to think about you. Sometimes people just don't believe in you

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