What I learned from 100 days of rejection.

[kinyash]

I don't want to be a party pooper but I feel tiny resentment when I hear about rich people make experiments getting into working class to have a trip out of their comfort zone and make a funny show about it. I know it's because I work as a postman, looking like a moron on a bike without brakes, I spent 6 hours on a hail and then a bilzzard on wednesday and I'm not gonna get an aword for that or I expect one.
Please help me get over my bitterness. If I could change one thing this would be it. I was in a million embarrassing things, you've read my comments, it's embarrassing, I can teach you how to master it if you want.

Hi Martina,
Thanks for sharing your reaction to the video. Gurdjieff used to give his students “meaningless and menial tasks” as an experiment to bring out their true nature. Most of the everyday work we do is in fact quite meaningless and many times we just lie to ourselves that we are doing something really useful, that our product helps to make the world better, that we are contributing to the world. In truth we are not. We have to do something to survive and then hopefully we have some time left over to do what really matters, -work on ourselves. Maybe your job is not something that you can be really proud of, but you can explore the “resentment” that you feel especially towards others who appear to be in better circumstances. Indeed see if you can trigger that resentment continuously then work on it. Every time you are on your bike delivering mail that’s an opportunity to work. So every time you have an opportunity, when people are introducing themselves, go right ahead and say “I deliver post” and see how long it takes to innoculate yourself. Fix the brakes on your bike and the breaks in your character :) All there is is lessons......

 

[Martina]

Thanks for your concerns but the problem is I'm not allowed to fix my company's bike, we have a mechanic that can't get the material because the company is to cheap to care. But symbollically looking yes I should get brakes, I think I had too much bad experiences, just that. Other people perhaps should open themselves to new experiences that might look scarry but are constructive.
From very scarry experiences that I have had I should have learned that I can do much more that I have imagined and I have to climb up a higher ladder. It takes time to process things and get over negative emotions and then you can use what happened for further growth.
I'm better today.

 

[Jones]

Coincidently, if there is such a thing, Jia's 60th rejection exercise was to ask to be able to give a college lecture. When he found a professor that said yes, he chose to talk about Paul and the rejection he experienced spreading Christianity!

Rejection 60: [Special] - My First College Lecture — Rejection Therapy

When I stumbled upon this article on regrets , I couldn't help but imagine what my life would have been if I hadn't made the decision to pursue my dream to become an entrepreneur last year. I would still be collecting paychecks and live a life others expected of me... and I would still be

www.rejectiontherapy.com

 

[Tuatha de Danaan]

After reading Rejection 60 mentioned above I found at the end of the page the below reference. This is the 1st time I've heard of Dr. Brene Brown but I have to say she is amazingly honest and really digs deep into this problem of vulnerability which everyone suffers from. Her take home lesson, I think, is that vulnerability is not a weakness put the place from where authenticity grows.

Learning: In her famous TED talk, Dr. Brene Brown described the power and necessity of vulnerability. Maybe in this sense, we can all learn something from college students.

 

[Cosmos]

This video is basically discussing the same approach: