Perspective Change: Rejection

I am reading Noah Kagan’s Million Dollar Weekend and I’m really enjoying it. The book is changing my perspectives on starting a business and even life.

One area of such change: rejection

Rejection is one of the painful feelings - it might be the opposite of love. Rejection comes in different forms: getting a ‘no’ to your offering, not moving forward in an interview process, a straight up denial to your request, getting fired from a job you love, or not getting what you asked for.

There are intense emotions around rejection:

• pain
• anxiety
• embarassment

I found these feelings hurt and honestly, not fun to deal with.

In Million Dollar Weekend, Noah shares his father’s approach to rejection:

Love rejections! Collect them like treasure! Set rejection goals. I shoot for a hundred rejections each week, because if you work that hard to get so many noes, my little Noah’le, in them you will find a few yeses, too

When you get one yes to your request, one acceptance, one “love” - that feeling will make all the pain of rejection go away - even more, because that’s how powerful emotions can be the other way: joy!

Every rejection is building towards a bigger acceptance - and when the acceptance comes, it’s like winning the emotional lottery.

Keep playing the game you chose and get those rejections, because the payout will be worth it!