Moment 61 - How To Handle ANY Rejection: Dr. Julie Smith
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What you were describing there, that's scrolling through comments looking for the bad one, |
| 0:05.2 | is something I think we can all relate to, because I will get 99.9% like great comments. |
| 0:10.0 | And then it'll be, as you say, the one that's either that's critical or that feels personal. |
| 0:15.9 | It's safe, someone's like criticizing something that I've done. |
| 0:18.9 | I don't really care. |
| 0:19.9 | It's when they are criticizing who I am. |
| 0:22.3 | I think I find it hardest. |
| 0:23.9 | And so I wanted to understand why that was. |
| 0:26.2 | And I started doing some reading and some writing about this topic and understanding |
| 0:29.6 | the nature. |
| 0:31.1 | If we go back in our history as humans of rejection and what that used to mean when |
| 0:35.7 | I was a human, the idea of being like, despat, kicked out of my tribe and the threat that |
| 0:41.4 | that would put me under if I was removed from my tribe in this idea of rejection. |
| 0:45.4 | And really like, a lot of rejection, this is kind of what I came to the conclusion of, |
| 0:50.4 | when someone says something like that, it's almost like, for me, it feels like a threat |
| 0:54.8 | of rejection, a threat of being expelled from the, you know, from the tribe or whatever. |
| 0:59.6 | Obviously not. |
| 1:00.6 | Obviously, that is not the truth. |
| 1:03.7 | But deep within me somewhere that desire to fit in and be accepted by the tribe is still |
| 1:08.6 | there. |
| 1:09.6 | So having millions of people being able to give me feedback and some of them seemingly |
| 1:13.8 | rejecting me from the tribe or saying that I don't fit or they do whatever is difficult. |
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