Dealing with rejection by disassociating
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English - December 11, 2023 12:32 - 8 minutes - 3.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A great deal of dealing with rejection is not to let the arbitrariness of it affect you.
The only way that I know how to deal with this arbitrariness is to disassociate. These outcomes have nothing to do with your identity.
View what you’re doing is simply a job, and these outcomes are not your identity.
Internalizing outcomes as who you are, whether it be publications, grants, and sales made, will inevitably lead to moments of crisis.
You are more than that.
Keep taking those steps forward.
Screw the rest. It doesn’t matter anyway.