So I recently came across the story of a man. His name is Gia Jiang. He was born in Beijing, China, not too long ago.

And when he was 14 years old, Bill Gates came to Beijing and actually gave a talk at his school.

And he was just captivated, fascinated by Bill Gates in his success, in his charisma, and all that he had done.

And so he got home that night and he wrote a letter to his family.

And he described how, when he said, by the time I'm 25, I will have founded the largest company in the world.

And I will have bought Microsoft. He's a dreamer, right? But then a two years later he got the chance to move to the United States.

And so he's like, that's where Bill Gates lives. I'm going to take that opportunity. So he moved to the United States.

And then that's when he's 16, 14 years later he's 30 years old and he has not accomplished any of his goals.

He did not found a company. He did not have success. He didn't buy Microsoft. Just in case you're wondering.

In fact, he was living, but he wasn't living the life that he had dreamed. If he wasn't living the life that had been planted in his heart when he was 14 years old, because he was just afraid.

In fact, he describes this. At 30 years old he looked at his life. He's a manager at some company. And he's like, I'm doing fine. But I'm not actually living the life that I took this step to come to the United States, because I wanted to live a bigger life than I'm living right now. And I'm not living that life.

And he realized it at 30 years old, the reason why? The reason why is because he was afraid.

And he's not just afraid of anything. He understood I'm afraid of rejection. I'm afraid of trying and failing because someone just rejected me. And so he was like, okay, where do I do with this? And thankfully Google exists.

And so he looked it up. How to overcome the fear of rejection. And he said there's all these ideas like wiki how to overcome rejection and fear.

And one, you know, informational speeches, people saying just don't care what people think. And none of those things helped them. And nothing helped them until he found a website that literally it's rejection therapy.com

which is started by a man from Canada named James, James, and that did is James, had the notion of exposure therapy. So exposure therapy is a psychological principle where if you are afraid of something, you have it in order to fear of something, a phobia of something, you just gradually expose yourself little by little to a little bit more, a little bit more.

And you realize it can't hurt me and you become impervious to it essentially. And so what James calmly did is you created this game where for 30 days in a row, you would seek out rejection once a day.

And Gia thought like that's a great idea. And so he thought, well, a better idea would be not just 30 days. How about a hundred days of rejection? So he's like, I have a big problem. I need a hundred days of rejection.

And not only will he look for a hundred days of rejection, he thought he would film the whole thing and create a blog about his hundred days full of rejection. So the first day he describes the first days challenge of being rejected was to ask a stranger for a hundred dollars.

So he was like, okay, he goes down in his office, he lived, he walked and went down to the lobby. And he saw this man sitting behind a desk and thought maybe he was a security guard or something he didn't know, but he was intimidating and big. And he's like, I'm going to ask that guy to borrow a hundred dollars.

And he describes walking across the lobby, filming himself this whole time, mind you, walking across the lobby. And he's like, I was sweating like the hair on my hat, hair on the back of my neck was standing up. And I walked up this man and said, excuse me, sir, could I please have a hundred dollars?

And then man looks up and he's kind of surprised. He's like, no. And then he pauses and he says, why? But Gia was like, not even waiting. He's like, you answer his no, I'm sorry, I bother you by. And he runs away. He's like, I literally ran across the lobby. That night he went home and he watched the tape and he realized,

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