Jia Jiang's 100 Days of Rejection
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Jia Jiang's 100 Days of Rejection
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#2The game Jia based his 100 Days of Rejection Therapy on is here: http://rejectiontherapy.com
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#4I wonder what the psychological effects of doing something like this are.
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#5That reminded me this. 100 rejections:
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#6This reminded me of the biblical story of Job [1]!
[1] http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=NI...
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#7I guess the key point here is that by desensitizing yourself to rejection, you prevent a single rejecting from impeding your progress. ("Making a mountain out of a molehill")
Of course it's important to learn why rejection or failure was encountered; some aspects are outside of our control, but those that are, we can work to change.
Where it becomes a problem is when the rejection/failure is generalized into a systematic problem that demotivates you from continuing on.
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#8First time I've seen an MTV link on Hacker News :)
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#9I wonder what the psychological effects of doing something like this are.
I'd suppose reduced rejection sensitivity.
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#10if you want a more meaningful understanding of rejection, read toni morrison's the bluest eye