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How to deal with Rejection

Not Overthinking

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Is Your Self-Esteem Internally Generated?

Rudyard Kipling said that if you want something and don't get it, then there are only two reasons for that. Either you didn't want it enough, or you tried to negotiate on the price. I immediately fit that quote to almost every struggle I've ever had in my life. So having that particular mental model means that now whenever I think I want something, but don’t get it, I actually think what's a problem here? Do I actually not want this enough? Or am I not willing to pay the price? And then in either way, that gives me some good information about myself.

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