because the more proud we make ourselves,

the more we will come to like ourselves,

and we won't look to the outside world

to validate us in that way. I'm going to give you three secrets to changing your relationship with rejection.

Are you someone who suffers from the anxiety of getting rejected.

Does it stop you from taking risks?

Whether it's approaching someone in real life

or messaging someone on an app

or going on a first date with someone.

Maybe you just feel this socially in general,

this sense of anxiety at talking to other people and then rejecting you.

You might even feel it in your professional life,

that there are risks you don't take,

there are cause you don't make, opportunities

you don't ever put yourself up for because you're terrified of the

rejection that could ensue. So how do we begin to reduce our sensitivity to

rejection? Number one, appreciate sensitivity to rejection. Rejection.

Number one, appreciate that rejection is complex.

Other people have all sorts of reasons for rejecting us. It might be that you're not their type, which has nothing

to do with how attractive you are. It's just that you're not their type. It may be that they're looking

for something superficial purely. It might be that they are still hung up on their ex. It might be that they're hungry. It might be that they weren't hugged enough as a child. There are so many reasons why someone might have rejected us that have nothing to do with our true value.

But what we do in those moments is our ego takes our biggest insecurity,

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