Yo, today's QOT is you will not achieve the greatness you were born for worrying about rejection.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

dot com. It's throwback Thursday and we are turned back that clock all the way to episode

number 108 in our feature speaker, Dr. John D martini. Today, Dr. D martini is talking

about the realities of criticism and rejection that no matter what we do, we are always going

to encounter criticism and rejection. There's no way around it. If you are not doing something,

if you are not trying something, if you are not acting on the idea that you have because

you feel like someone's going to reject you or criticize you, you are never going to

get started because it's impossible. I always tell people, I have one of the most positive

podcasts on earth. And I still get criticism. I still get critical emails, you know, something

I said or something I wrote in a newsletter that they completely misinterpreted or something

that one of the speakers said or something that one of the speakers did 25 years ago as

if people can't change, it doesn't matter. You are always going to be criticized. There's

a book, I can't remember the name, it's a really good book. I can't remember the name,

but the author you can look it up on Amazon, it is called The Courage to Be Dislite. If

you want to be successful in this world, you have to have the courage to be disliked.

You have to become comfortable with criticism and rejection. Here's Dr. D martini.

The next thing that obstacleizes, if that's a word I made up, and that is the fear of rejection.

Do you know that acceptance and rejection is conserved through time and space? Within you

and around you, you will build yourself up and put yourself down. Would you agree that

there's nobody out here that ever receives putdowns more than they put down themselves?

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