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Bouncing Back from Rejection

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

You've Got Me Linging, I'm Laughing Now It's a Joke

Emily winter wanted to be a comedy writer, but kept getting turned down for jobs. So she decided to try stand up. She started at open mike's, and it did not go well. At the tail of two thousand 17, she had an idea: Set a goal to get a hundred professional rejections. In the end, i ended up with a hundred and seven rejections and forty three acceptances.

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