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Video Pick: How Rejection Can Help You Succeed

Updated 6/19/2020
Video Pick: How Rejection Can Help You Succeed
Think avoiding rejection is the way to success? Think again. In this video, entrepreneur Jia Jiang shares some lessons from his 100 Days of Rejection experiment.

Rejection is one of those things most of us tend to avoid, especially when it comes to our careers—it feels like failure, and it's certainly not very fun. So, how could actively seeking out rejection help in our success?

In this video, entrepreneur and failure expert Jia Jiang shares some of the results of his 100 Days of Rejection Therapy project. Take a few minutes to check the surprising benefits of being rejected, then think about how you can face your fear of failure today.

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