We're all held back by this rejection in some way, our fear of rejection.

It's the type of fear that we keep telling ourselves that we shouldn't try this.

People wouldn't like it. I would seem silly, but I want people to not have that fear.

So before I dive into the actual introduction for this week's episode,

you may hear a little bit of noise in the background.

It's funny, I call it noise because I'm from New York City.

What I'm talking about is all sorts of tweets and birds and nature sounds.

I'm recording this actually at the crack of dawn sitting on the side of the mountain in Costa Rica

where we're on retreat for an hour at the budget of the budget.

It's very early. The rooster's time clock is a little bit off.

He starts crowing here at about 3.30 in the morning, which is kind of funny.

But it's a beautiful, incredible place to be.

So if you hear all sorts of nature sounds in the background, that's what's going on.

It's not actually horns or things that you might normally see in New York City where I normally do this.

So today's conversation really loved.

Jajang is a guy who came to the United States from China at a very young age on his own

because he was obsessed with the possibility of entrepreneurship.

And when he got here, he discovered not only that he ended up in a den of criminals,

but that he was terrified.

He was shut down by the idea of rejection.

And rather than running from it, he actually ran into it.

And once what he called his rejection project and every day started challenging himself

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