Want To Achieve Bigger Goals? Learn to Embrace Rejection. Here’s How.
The most successful people aren’t jaded or cynical — on the contrary, they’re extremely open to feedback and learning from rejection.
In his autobiography, Tony award-winning actor Leslie Odom Jr. found enormous success as the star of Hamilton. But shortly after his commercial success, he began experiencing major rejection in auditions.
“Years of heartbreak and rejection had made me guarded,” Odom Jr. wrote. “I was tight and tense. There was a film of corrosion and jadedness over me that had to be stripped away immediately.”
Rejection isn’t fun. I’m not here to tell you that failing and getting rejected doesn’t hurt. It does, a lot. No one is immune from it.
But unless you learn to embrace rejection, and learn from your mistakes, you’ll never achieve your biggest goals.
Want to consistently achieve bigger and bigger goals? Then it’s time to learn how to handle rejection, learn from it, and avoid the toxic jadedness that will ultimately prevent you from ever truly succeeding.
“Bad things are fuel. You don’t just want fuel — you need it. You can’t go anywhere without it.” -Ryan Holiday
