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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Nowadays, fear to rejection is getting bigger and bigger. The reason for this may be due to the proliferation and social media and other technological means of communication. They´re a double-edged sword. One of the negative aspects of them is that they prevent people from socializing among each other. Though, there´s a lot of more reasons why people fear rejection. This particular time I saw Jia Jiang´s speech about rejection. He himself is a entrepreneur who at 30 realized that he´d forgotten his original dream. His wife encouraged him to seek that goal he´d been dreaming of since before he emigrated to the US at 16. Of course it wasn´t easy for him; his original plan was to become an entrepreneur. So that he decided to venture into a creating business; unfortunately his plan fell through  cause the loan for the project didn´t get accepted. After licking his own wounds for some time, something unexpected happened. He ran into this amazing ¨Rejection therapy¨ created by a Canadian psychologist. After plunging himself into this new project he decided to do it for 100 days, and vlog it. Basically what he had to do was to go out into the street and people randomly if he could do some unexposed thing. For instance, one he asked a police officer if he could sit on the driver´s seat and pretend he was him. The officer said yes to his surprise. Of course he got rejected as well many times. Though he got more yeses. Moreover, it´s important to consider as well what he did after almost fulfilling this project. Jia got so many questions from people who´d seen his videos, he didn´t have time to answer them all. One French guy for example, told Jia his story. He´d been trying to flirt with this girl at the gym for like a month. Even though it seemed she was into him too, he was too afraid of rejection. To sum up, I´d say fear ain´t something we´re born with. We learn to acquire it. Just as we learn how to do that, we can also learn how to control it. I myself have abandoned many plans cause of fear of rejection. Don´t be like I was. Listen to Jia Jiang!

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