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If something can´t hurt me, then why should it scare me?
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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But by not even asking, we are rejecting ourselves by default—and probably missing out on opportunity as a result. A 2011
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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Rejection is just an opinion, remember? It reflects them more than me, right?
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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It doesn’t matter how amazing your performance or products are, if you target the wrong audience, who don’t recognize, appreciate, or need your value, your effort will be both wasted and rejected.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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If something can't hurt me, then why should it scare me?
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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When you are not afraid of rejection and it feels like you have nothing to lose, amazing things can happen.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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constant approval-seeking causes us to bend ourselves in ways that are not authentic.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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In the end, what we really need is not acceptance from others but acceptance from ourselves.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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Is your dream bigger than your rejections? If it is, maybe it´s time to keep going, instead of giving up
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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Rejection Is Human: Rejection is a human interaction with two sides. It often says more about the rejector than the rejectee, and should never be used as the universal truth and sole judgment of merit.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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Ask “Why” Before Good-bye: Sustain the conversation after the initial rejection. The magic word is “why,” which can often reveal the underlying reason for the rejection and present the rejectee with the opportunity to overcome the issue.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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Retreat, Don’t Run: By not giving up after the initial rejection, and instead retreating to a lesser request, one has a much higher chance of landing a yes.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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Rejection Is an Opinion: Rejection is an opinion of the rejector. It is heavily influenced by historical context, cultural differences, and psychological factors. There is no universal rejection or acceptance.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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the way you ask a question—and how you follow through in the conversation—has an impact on the result you get. It might not change the outcome, but it can take a lot of the sting out of hearing no. Projecting confidence and staying calm—rather than cowering—had created a totally different experience.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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One of the most popular TED Talks came from Jia Jiang, in which he spoke about spending time living outside of his comfort zone. Jiang spent 100 days seeking out opportunities to experience rejection to help him overcome social anxiety and his fear of rejection to become a more confident person. It involved him doing things like asking a random stranger to lend him $100, knocking on someone’s door and asking to play soccer in their backyard, and asking for second helpings in a restaurant without paying. At the end of the 100 days, Jiang was a completely different person—he was confident and sociable because of how kind people were to him during this time spent outside his comfort zone.
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Daniel Walter (The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals)
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When you are not afraid of rejection and it feels like you have nothing to lose, Amazing things can happen
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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When Jia Jiang graduated with an MBA from Duke, he wanted to be an entrepreneur. Like so many of us, however, his fear of hearing no was holding him back. To face this fear head-on, he started a video blog called 100 Days of Rejection Therapy. His endearing, perplexing, and absurd videos document what happened as he approached complete strangers, day after day, with off-the-wall requests: to speak over Costco’s intercom, to become a live mannequin at Abercrombie and Fitch, or to borrow a dog from the Humane Society. I love his rejections so much that I challenge my students to replicate them. Jia’s tolerance for rejection and vulnerability reveal the delight and playfulness that can emerge out of the most awkward situations.
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Zoe Chance (Influence Is Your Superpower: How to Get What You What Without Compromising Who You Are)
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Rejection Therapy—a game of sorts developed by a Canadian entrepreneur named Jason Comely, in which you purposely and repeatedly seek out rejection to desensitize yourself to the pain of the word no.
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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If I could get custom-made Olympic donuts from Krispy Kreme without even trying, what else was possible if I just asked? A better question: What was possible if I really tried hard?
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)
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TED Talks came from Jia Jiang, in which he spoke about
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Daniel Walter (The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals)
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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why…. I dream things that never were, and ask why not.” —ROBERT KENNEDY
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Jia Jiang (Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection)