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Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection by Jia Jiang
4.0
The fascinating journey of an underconfident person who decided he needed to work on his ability to cope with rejection. Jiang had a prestigious, high paying job, and was living in the US, having handled the challenge of moving there alone as a student, so he didn’t lack discipline or courage, but knew that he could achieve more if he could get rid of the burden of fear he carried, which had stopped him from following his dream to be an entrepreneur.
On the birth of his first child, his wife freed him to follow that dream, giving himself 6 months. Toward the end of that time, his idea for an app was rejected by a sponsor and he knew that he needed to face his demons, and try to heal himself.
This is the story of the steps he took to desensitize himself to disappointment and embarrassment. It’s fascinating and cringeworthy and makes you squirm, the things he forced himself to undertake during his 100 days of rejection experiment, and this reality and personal journey makes the book as compelling as a novel. Jiang explains the basis of his success and original fears eloquently enough to make him a fascinating character in his own story, and he is sensitive and thoughtful enough about these hard challenges that he extracts lots of principles and wisdom from each one, originally recording them in a blog which eventually became virally successful. Almost distracted by offers of fame and money as a blogger, Jiang continued his project and eventually published his results in this fascinating book.
This work has plenty to offer for anyone who is sometimes lacking in confidence, who has feared failure to the point of self discouragement, or who is simply interested in learning to move beyond their fears and improve.
Jiang learns about how to phrase a request, the value of asking for feedback after disappointment, and lots more which he clearly distils at the end of a chapter into lists of advice, which is fantastic because you can see where the advice came from, and then he uses it in his next challenge.
This would be just the sort of book to give to somebody who has been discouraged, to help them to climb back up for another try, or to a young person just starting out with facing the world.
On the birth of his first child, his wife freed him to follow that dream, giving himself 6 months. Toward the end of that time, his idea for an app was rejected by a sponsor and he knew that he needed to face his demons, and try to heal himself.
This is the story of the steps he took to desensitize himself to disappointment and embarrassment. It’s fascinating and cringeworthy and makes you squirm, the things he forced himself to undertake during his 100 days of rejection experiment, and this reality and personal journey makes the book as compelling as a novel. Jiang explains the basis of his success and original fears eloquently enough to make him a fascinating character in his own story, and he is sensitive and thoughtful enough about these hard challenges that he extracts lots of principles and wisdom from each one, originally recording them in a blog which eventually became virally successful. Almost distracted by offers of fame and money as a blogger, Jiang continued his project and eventually published his results in this fascinating book.
This work has plenty to offer for anyone who is sometimes lacking in confidence, who has feared failure to the point of self discouragement, or who is simply interested in learning to move beyond their fears and improve.
Jiang learns about how to phrase a request, the value of asking for feedback after disappointment, and lots more which he clearly distils at the end of a chapter into lists of advice, which is fantastic because you can see where the advice came from, and then he uses it in his next challenge.
This would be just the sort of book to give to somebody who has been discouraged, to help them to climb back up for another try, or to a young person just starting out with facing the world.