I saw this thing about a woman who was attempting to work through her fear of rejection or her rejection sensitivity.
She set a goal to potentially get rejected a thousand times within a certain time period, like a year.
I think a lot of us don't ask questions because of a fear of rejection, or maybe insecurity/embarrassment.
But a lot of times when we end up asking, or if we actually go through with asking, it ends up being a yes.
Apparently, this girl was cast in a play or as an extra because of it.
Another person was saying they ended up in an international pageant and ranking high up in it.
This other woman went to a zoo, and in her process attempting to get rejected, she asked if she could could meet the penguins.
The zookeeper ended up saying yes and she got to go hang out with the penguins and meet them.
It’s something that's already a part of my Hart-Led Life Curriculum that I've included.
Because there’s no growth in a comfort zone and closed mouths don't get fed.
“Fortune favors the bold.”
If you don't ask the question, the answer is automatically a no.
Also, that quote that’s been overplayed in my life, by Wayne Gretzky I believe—
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
It's incredibly true where if you don't take the shot, if you don't ask the question, if you don't put yourself out there even a little bit, the answer is always going to be no.
You never know what could happen.
You're failing before you're even trying.
Which makes me think of a childhood movie.
Was it A Cinderella Story? Where Hillary Duff is in it and I think her dad has it on their diner wall or something.
“Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
There's a lot of quotes around this topic, probably because it's an important topic, and a lot of people have achieved or accidentally achieved certain things because of following this advice.
But I'm kind of wondering if I should intensify the amount of times that it's included in the curriculum?
For me, I have it included in getting uncomfortable.
But there also has to be somewhat of a healthy dynamic with it, especially in the beginning.
Having some kind of safety parameters to it, so that it's not exactly crushing if it doesn't go well when we're not used to being uncomfortable.
I'm thinkig a thousand times in 13 weeks is kind of excessive.
But I don't know if a couple times a week is necessarily enough either.
I'm gonna have to brainstorm more on it.
Whether or not I want to up the amount of times, or how to divide it up.
I currently have it divided up weekly.
And so maybe it's like a monthly goal and then divided it into the weeks or what?
I guess we'll see.
