Ohhh the lunches Seth Godin and I would share together! Full of wisdom and encouragement. Read this: +++++++++++++++++++++++ But I might get rejected Indeed, you might. You might get your hopes up only to find them dashed. You might decide on where you want to go, and then not get there. You might fall in love with a vision of the future and then discover it doesnt happen. How much would that hurt? How much would it hurt to have those hopes, those decisions and that love turn out to be all for nothing? Of course, its not for nothing. In fact, those hopes, those decisions and that love is the foundation for a path worth pursuing. Its what makes us better. Sure, the odds are against you, but I think thats a lousy reason to avoid exploring something. Will I get in? is not nearly as good a question as, Is it worth trying? Dont apply (to this or to anything else) just because you can, but yes, apply to something that matters to you, something worth dreaming about. You might get rejected. So what? Leap. [I want to make an essential distinction here: Theres a huge difference between the internal cost of being rejected (you feel bad, you feel like a failure, you feel like a fraud), and the external cost. The external cost might be the time you wasted working on something that didnt work. It might be that you offended someone by asking the wrong way, or by spamming, or by being selfish. And it might be that you wasted an opportunity by going for the longshot or the shortcut when you would have been better off settling in and succeeding in the long run. This post is about the internal cost. Its so easy to talk ourselves into failure before it even shows up.]
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 10:28:07 +0000
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