{"id":2971,"date":"2017-03-08T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2017-03-08T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:02:46","slug":"rejection-is-the-worst-3-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/rejection-is-the-worst-3-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection is the Worst! 3 Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why does rejection hurt so much? And why does it hurt differently in different contexts? I’ve been applying to internships for the past few months, and I was surprised to find that rejection got easier as I went along.<\/p>\n

It was almost as if the more people rejected me the less personal it felt. Perhaps I’m just learning to ignore it better. Whatever the case, I certainly think about the rejection differently than I did a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Here are 3 key mindset differences I noticed in myself. They seem to have made rejection a lot easier to handle, and I hope they can help you in some way:<\/p>\n

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  1. Amount of time spent thinking about it.\u00a0<\/strong> The first and biggest difference is simply how much time I spend thinking about the “loss” of a rejected application.\u00a0 I spend significantly less time, sometimes no time at all, focusing on the disappointment of not getting something. Though I’d like to claim this as a conscious effort on my part, it wasn’t. The more jobs I applied to, the less time I could give to thinking about any one job individually. But the result of that accidental shift–the thinking less about the losses–has made everything a lot easier.<\/li>\n
  2. Confidence in the future.<\/strong> When I first started applying to internships, with each company I didn’t hear back from I’d become more and more concerned that maybe no one would want to hire me. Now, and perhaps it’s for no good reason, I kind of assume some internship is going to come through, as long as I keep working at it. I feel like if I continue to persevere, the right job will come along. I don’t have proof of this, and maybe I’m wrong, but at the least,\u00a0 the delusion is a great stress-reliever and great motivation to continue searching.<\/li>\n
  3. Focusing on the potential.<\/strong> I almost enjoy applying for things at this point. And I think it’s because as I apply, I’m thinking about the reasons I would be excited to work for that company and the difference I feel I could make there. With mind-space freed up by steps 1 and 2, I have room to be excited about future possibilities. And being excited about future possibilities is a great help to enjoying the process now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hope you’ve found similar things helpful, and if you haven’t tried similar things, then I hope you’ll try some of these mind-shifts. They have certainly been helpful to me in guarding against the pain of rejection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Image via Lifehacker.com Why does rejection hurt so much? And why does it hurt differently in different contexts? I’ve been applying to internships for the past few months, and I was surprised to find that rejection got easier as I went along. It was almost as if the more people rejected me the less personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}