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The Rejection Book: Good luck, bad luck, who knows?
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#23Great article. Rudyard Kipling warned us of the same when he wrote: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same" This is the main theme of the book "Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure", written by Andreas Kluth of The Economist. If you enjoyed the OP's post, and love history (or just great storytelling), get…
I want to read "Hannibal and Me" by agent Starling.
Re: The Rejection Book: Good luck, bad luck, who knows?
#24Check out Jia Jiang's 100 days of Rejection Therapy here: http://entresting.com - he video records his rejections and they're fun to watch.
The official Rejection Therapy website is here: http://rejectiontherapy.com/rules
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#25Can anyone link to AirBnB's 999 days without traction that he mentioned?
my thoughts exactly... also the other failure/success mentions, not just airbnb.
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#26Thank you so much for this post, this gives me a little bit of hope and urge me to keep trucking.
I too was a man full of rejection:
1. I was kicked as a co-founder of a successful startup. 2. Upon finding a full-time job, a year later I was fired and have a lawyer to write demand letters for me which I never comply. 3. Found another job to work remotely that require me to have a Macbook Pro, but being financially short I converted my only desktop to a hackintosh. Then months later they send somebody at my house and upon discovery that I don't have a Macbook Pro I was fired. 4. Found another job, months later I was being shouted to leave the office and was fired. 5. Found another job, I was really happy I was into mobile app development, and 2 weeks away from release and shipping of the app, I was fired and the app didn't get shipped.
Right now I'm hoping to get into developing my own product, only if I have the strength to move on, and this post gives me a little bit of hope, I say 'Good luck, bad luck, who knows?'
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#27I really enjoyed reading this. It neatly and succinctly encapsulates life's little uncertainties. As someone who's seen his share of rejections (as well as the inverse) lately, I can certainly identify.
Ditto.
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#28I personally have no problem with rejection per se. However, I find it particularly annoying when companies don't send any kind of response back.
That's why it is brilliant idea to call them back and ask why! (Which is what the article author did in case of Foreign Office.)
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#29I personally have no problem with rejection per se. However, I find it particularly annoying when companies don't send any kind of response back.
That's why it is brilliant idea to call them back and ask why! (Which is what the article author did in case of Foreign Office.)
How do you call them back? It's not like a good company will leave their phone number of the HR department so that you can call them as you please.
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#30If you liked reading this post, I highly recommend Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. One of my favorite quotes, "So it goes," is repeated often throughout the book, and though it usually refers to tragic circumstances, it too hints that life will throw major wrenches in our plans that we shouldn't try to completely ascribe meaning to.
"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."