Best of: Jia Jiang: Lessons Learned from 100 Days of Rejection
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How do you overcome a fear of rejection? By getting rejected over and over again and learning lessons from those experiences. Jia Jiang did just that, and he turned 100 days of rejection into a life-altering experience that culminated in a full blown movement. Hear his story and how rejection completely changed his life.
Jia Jang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. But despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed, and spiraled into a period of deep self doubt. But he realized that his fear of rejection was a bigger obstacle than any single rejection would ever be, and he needed to find a way to cope with being told no without letting it destroy him. Thus was born his “100 days of rejection” experiment, during which he willfully sought rejection on a daily basis–from requesting a lesson in sales from a car salesman (no) to asking a flight attendant if he could make an announcement on the loud speaker (yes) to his famous request to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the shape of Olympic rings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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| 0:50.0 | When you're entrepreneur you feel like those transformative moments you can try |
| 0:57.2 | anything you want you can do anything you want in your lives and and that was |
| 1:01.0 | a time and I was like you know I just want to turn this into something |
| 1:04.8 | interesting for me I just want to see if this can have any self-help or or meaning in my own life. |
| 1:13.1 | So instead of just running away |
| 1:16.4 | or instead of just try to get over quickly, |
| 1:18.7 | I turn that into something fun. |
| 1:20.2 | And this has taught me a lesson, |
| 1:22.0 | meaning like every time we have a failure, we can turn those failures or into something useful because there are a lot more many people who have failures and if you can learn from the failure and |
| 1:36.0 | actually share your failure if you are brave enough to say what you learn from |
| 1:39.7 | this failure and you can turn something really bad into something really good and in my case |
| 1:45.8 | it became a life mission. |
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