How to Absorb Rejection
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again - Pat Riley
Chances are the first efforts will fail. Calls with people who doubt your potential. Advice from colleagues, urging you to lessen your goals. Intros with recruiters who never follow up. Interview loops ending in rejection.
Losing only matters if you didn’t learn.
So what kind of lessons matter? Maybe it was the wrong company. Wrong team. Wrong role. Wron…
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