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I'm Guy Ross. So what you think back to the last time you were rejected? Maybe your boss

shot down one of your ideas. Maybe you asked somebody out and it didn't go over too well.

Whatever it was, rejection is not fun. And I think it's safe to say,

most people try to avoid it. Or at least most people don't seek out rejection. Unless you're this guy.

My name is Jia Jiang and people call me the rejection guy.

Jia actually goes out looking for rejection all the time on purpose. By the way, have you been rejected

at all? Oh no, I haven't been. You've not experienced rejection today. No, I feel bad about it now.

But I do it probably like two to three times a week just to keep myself sharp.

And the thing is, for most of his life, Jia was terrified of rejection. Yes, absolutely.

I was so afraid of rejection just looking back, I felt this is one of my biggest problems in my life.

So he decided to do something about this problem. And Jia thought by fixing it, he could become a

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