Why Rejection Hurts and 6 Ways to Gracefully Deal With it

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Rejection is probably one of the worst feelings you could ever have, it honestly feels like a punch in the stomach. Regardless of how successful someone seems, we’ve all experienced it at some point or another in our lives.Whether it’s in the workplace or in our personal lives, it never feels good and we don’t always know the best way to handle it. In this week's episode, I did the research and share 6 ways you can start to gracefully deal with rejection in any situation.I show you what I call the rule of 100, why you shouldn’t be seeking revenge and how you can turn rejection into redirection. This is an important skill we should all learn how to master so make sure you listen carefully and take notes!

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0:00.0	If you knock on one door, it's likely it won't open.
0:03.0	If you knock on 100 doors, maybe 102 will open.
0:06.3	If you knock on 200 doors, maybe 2 to 4 will open.
0:08.4	If you knock on 300 doors, maybe 3 to 6 will open.
0:11.6	But being scared of rejection,
0:14.0	stops us from knocking.
0:15.6	And because it stops us from knocking,
0:17.7	it also stops us from success.
0:24.7	Welcome to Unpurpose, the number one health and well-being podcast
0:28.6	in the world because of you.
0:30.8	Right? It's only there because of you.
0:33.3	I'm genuinely so, so, so deeply grateful and appreciative
0:39.0	that you tune in every single week, twice a week to hear me
0:42.8	interview guests, to hear me do these solo episodes.
0:45.7	And I love that you love the podcast so much.
0:49.6	And that you keep supporting by sharing it,
0:52.1	by learning from it, by growing from it.
0:54.6	I'm genuinely indebted to each and every single one of you.
0:58.5	Today's episode is about why rejection hurts
1:03.2	and six ways to gracefully deal with it.
1:07.0	We've all been rejected.
1:09.8	We know exactly how it feels.
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