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The fear of rejection is the second fear that an entrepreneur must overcome.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance
Ray Bradbury, (1920 - ), advice to writers
Rejection can come in many forms: the rejection letter from a university, the “No” from the girl of your dreams who won’t go out with you, the rejection letter from employers, the denial of funding from a VC, or the rejection of your produ
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12.11.08
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." - Shakespeare
Great post, Jun!
12.11.08
Hey Holly, love the quote and your glasses :P
Failure to try guarantees a loss. I hope that my friend gets something from my post and decides to go after business school with all her might. If not, I'll give her a kick in her butt to get her started.
- Jun
12.11.08
Like failure, regret is also worse than rejection. There's nothing worse than waking up one day to a job you hate and wishing you'd chosen another path for yourself. I wish her the best, but if your friend gets rejected, at least she tried. Cliche, but true.
12.11.08
Good post, Jun. Sounds like you're picking apart common threads from PUA's and Tim Ferris and applying them to your situation - which is good, since we could all probably learn from their examples.
12.12.08
I’ve often been asked, “What do you think is the biggest contributing factor to failure?”
I can easily answer that question with one word… inaction.
To succeed, you have to do something, something that will move you toward what you want. When you’re not moving toward what you want, you’re suffering in what you don’t want. It’s like quicksand, and you get stuck there. It paralyzes you, so that just taking the first step seems unachievable.
But the first step is better than the quicksand because it’s one step closer to where you want to be and what you want to be doing. And that inaction is what kills more businesses and relationships than anything else.
Avoid failure… take action!
Check out this great resource I've been using to fuel my motivation: www.johnassaraf.com/hia. Let me know what you all think!
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