Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection
By Jia Jing / Narrated by Mike Chamberlain
Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
What? I have only SIX rejection slip? Why so few?!?
Jia Jing starts his journey as a young man living for others, defining success by what others tell him he should value, what he should shoot for. So when he fails on this path, he’s devastated, crippled by self-doubt.
This is such an enchanting, such a liberating little book, coming in at 6 ½ hours that will entertain you (hopefully). Because Jia Jing does this thing my therapist is always telling me about: You get over fear by exposure, constant exposure to what you’re afraid of. And Jia Jing starts small then goes big and begins to take delight in finding ways to be rejected. He comes up with some pretty funny and unique ways, all because he’s discovering that the word “No” never killed anyone.
Each time he fails, he analyzes the entire interaction and learns something new. Which is probably how we all should approach life, approach failure. (By the way, in Bluefishing by Steve Sims, he says it shouldn’t be called failure but “discovery”, as in: Now I know what NOT to do; maybe something else would get me closer to my goal). The man gets to a point where he has to do some really creative brainstorming in order to achieve his next great rejection.
It’ll get you thinking about how your own brushes with the F word (Failure, I mean! Get your mind out of the gutter!) have made you stronger, have made you learn, have propelled you closer to the next step. It’ll make you WANT to have more failures and rejection under your belt.
Okay, so there is the fact that I can’t write a good query letter to save my life, but I think my poor first novel just got rejected… period. Six times. And Rejection Proof has me wondering about why I haven’t sent it out a seventh time.
‘Cause really. Rejection can be funny… if you listen to it the right way…!
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