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The Game Changer Life

#105: 7 Ways to Benefit from Rejection

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9550 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Rejection is a part of life. Whether it's for a date, a job, a promotion, a loan, or something else, the way you handle rejection has the power to elevate or devastate you. In this show Dave shares 7 ways that you can interpret and benefit from rejection, so that it fuels you towards your goals, keeps you in your zone, and leaves you stronger, wiser, and better.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the game change your life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about seven ways to benefit from rejection.

0:22.8

Whether you are rejected for a date, for a relationship, for a job, for a promotion, for a loan.

0:31.1

Listen, rejection is there.

0:33.5

It's part of life.

0:35.0

And so one of the things I talk about in my book, Unstoppable, is changing

0:38.5

your mindset to where things don't happen to you. They happen for you. So we want to be able to

0:43.3

take rejection and find a way to use it. We want to interpret it the right way and find a way to use

0:48.4

it. And in this episode, I'm going to talk about seven ideas for doing that. It'll help keep you in

0:53.4

your zone, focusing on the things

0:55.3

that are productive, not turning you into a whimpering victim because you got rejected. Instead,

1:00.8

you're going to get stronger, wiser, better, and come back and get it right and get it done

1:05.0

the next time. And if you look up the definition of rejection, it talks about the dismissing,

1:13.1

refusal, or spurning of something or of someone's affections. Now, I'll just tell you, and if you don't handle it well,

1:18.6

it's going to get you out of your zone and it's going to affect all eight of the key traits

1:23.6

that the game changer more consistently brings than the undertaker, Caretaker, or Playmaker.

1:29.4

So we've got to interpret it better. We've got to use it productively. We've got to benefit from it.

1:33.9

But to benefit from it, first we've got to change our mindset. But first, it's time for our

1:41.7

Quick hit Q&A. I'll get to the seven points in a moment, but it's time for our quick hit Q&A. And if you know, if you've listened to past episodes, you can post a question on our social media at our Twitter, at Learn to Lead 100, the number 100, or at our Facebook.com slash the game changer life. Post a question there. I will address it here if you don't use either. Of those social

2:01.4

media, you can just email Ryan, the producer of this. Ryan, the killer COTA,

2:07.1

at learn to lead.com. He'll make sure I get the question. And this week's question is,

2:13.1

we're the questions. We're all caught up on questions. There are no new questions, so we will move

2:19.3

forward. Rejection. Seven ways to benefit from it. I can remember when I was writing my first book.

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