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Every Day, I Try To Get Rejected

39 points by thankuz 16y ago

mudge 16y ago
"So you just fucking own it, right? Can I swear?" Yes!
TamDenholm 16y ago
Relevant perhaps? http://www.rejectiontherapy.com/ http://www.rejectiontherapy.com/
xl-brain 16y ago
I couldn't tell who was interviewing who.
- DTrejo 16y ago
  Apparently it was an "outtake." This also confused me.
- jeza 16y ago
  Yeah weird way of conducting an interview, though follow the link for his name and it says "CEO & Co-founder of SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)".
marcomonteiro 16y ago
I don't think anyone should try to get rejected everyday. That's like trying to get hit by a car by running into a busy street, it's bound to happen. I'm also not a fan of trying to be the "next big thing". What's wrong with being the next small thing and being really great at it?
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beck5 16y ago
Assuming the guy is the interviewer he need to learn to shut up and ask questions.
helpmehelpyou 16y ago
One big - 100% effort, balls to the wall, worked your ass off to get there - rejection will hold far more wisdom than a myriad of small insignificant rejections. Why does sending Steve Jobs a single email and not receiving a response within in a day count as a noteworthy rejection? Seems hardly worth the effort and predetermined to count as a 'rejection'.
- Aetius 16y ago
  People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replied back? I'm willing to bet it was 0. He just did it because he could. This is like me tracking down insert female celeb fantasy here's phone number and asking to talk to her. Pointless.
  - mrzerga 16y ago
    i believe there is some unconvencional value in the advice in the article for the intraverted dudes with low self esteem like me. Given any hypothetical opportunity people like me will evaluate the chances of the positive outcome of the opportunity lower than extravert dudes with higher esteem, and will reject the opportunity outright. While your advice suggests the default behavior, the advice above stresses the need to increase the number of attempts, irregardless of whether they are successful or not, and by the law of large numbers, this might result in higher probability of positive outome/s. Therefore, setting the goal of being rejected more often, might be more productive than waiting for the "right" opportunity to acieve the desired outcome. p.s. usually I'm not that wordy.

39 points by thankuz 16y ago

mudge 16y ago

"So you just fucking own it, right? Can I swear?" Yes!

TamDenholm 16y ago

Relevant perhaps? http://www.rejectiontherapy.com/ http://www.rejectiontherapy.com/

xl-brain 16y ago

I couldn't tell who was interviewing who.

DTrejo 16y ago
Apparently it was an "outtake." This also confused me.
jeza 16y ago
Yeah weird way of conducting an interview, though follow the link for his name and it says "CEO & Co-founder of SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)".

marcomonteiro 16y ago

I don't think anyone should try to get rejected everyday. That's like trying to get hit by a car by running into a busy street, it's bound to happen. I'm also not a fan of trying to be the "next big thing". What's wrong with being the next small thing and being really great at it?

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beck5 16y ago

Assuming the guy is the interviewer he need to learn to shut up and ask questions.

helpmehelpyou 16y ago

One big - 100% effort, balls to the wall, worked your ass off to get there - rejection will hold far more wisdom than a myriad of small insignificant rejections. Why does sending Steve Jobs a single email and not receiving a response within in a day count as a noteworthy rejection? Seems hardly worth the effort and predetermined to count as a 'rejection'.

Aetius 16y ago
People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replied back? I'm willing to bet it was 0. He just did it because he could. This is like me tracking down insert female celeb fantasy here's phone number and asking to talk to her. Pointless.
- mrzerga 16y ago
  i believe there is some unconvencional value in the advice in the article for the intraverted dudes with low self esteem like me. Given any hypothetical opportunity people like me will evaluate the chances of the positive outcome of the opportunity lower than extravert dudes with higher esteem, and will reject the opportunity outright. While your advice suggests the default behavior, the advice above stresses the need to increase the number of attempts, irregardless of whether they are successful or not, and by the law of large numbers, this might result in higher probability of positive outome/s. Therefore, setting the goal of being rejected more often, might be more productive than waiting for the "right" opportunity to acieve the desired outcome. p.s. usually I'm not that wordy.