How to Stop Taking Rejection Personally
Everything happens FOR you.
Most people suck at taking rejection. Rejection hurts our ego, and the ego is defensive and fragile.
Many people fear rejection because they think it is somehow an indicator of lack in themselves.
Plus, society has ingrained the fear of rejection into every individual that has passed through its systems. The ability to embrace rejection is a skill that is learned long after schooling has ended.
We are hurt by rejection because we have been taught that being rejected means we are not enough.
This pandemic of “not-enoughness” comes from decades of cultural conditioning. In a society where failure is taught as something to be avoided, a subsequent effect of the fear of failure is the fear of rejection, because rejection tends to be associated with failure.
To stop taking rejection so personally, train your mind to think of rejection in a new light: it doesn’t say anything about you.
Rather, it is simply information regarding compatibility between you and what you were rejected from.
Getting rejected from a job doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough — it means that the position was not meant for you at that time.
