Hooray! You took a risk and put yourself out there. But after all of that emotional effort, it didn’t go as planned, and now you’re feeling just a bit wounded. Everyone deals with rejection at one ...

Crocodiles often swallow rocks, which can then tumble around harmlessly in their stomachs for years. A bellyful of rocks may even help crocodiles control their buoyancy and digest prey. (There’s a ...

Spring is when medical schools wind down their interview season and send letters of rejection to students who were not placed on an alternate list. This is distressing to good students who are used to ...

Rejection hurts. And it hurts regardless of who is rejecting you or how you’re getting rejected. Research confirms it, finding that when people get rejected, they often feel jealous, lonely and ...

Rejection is one of those things that we all have to deal with at some point in our lives. There’s always going to be women that don’t want to go on dates with you, promotions that you don’t get, or ...

No one likes being rejected, but when it happens the sting is a real, painful, emotional response. “When we’re talking about the term rejection, what we’re really referring to is feelings of shame, ...

An investor isn’t interested in your pitch. A distributor won’t stock your products. A potential customer says “no” to your proposal. For most entrepreneurs, hearing “yes” is definitely the exception, ...

As toddlers, we usually respond to the word “no” by crying and stamping our feet, hoping our teary tantrums will get us a “yes”. Sadly, it’s generally frowned upon for grown men to throw themselves on ...

When applying to your dream job, it is not uncommon to be rejected or even ghosted by recruiters and hiring managers. The problem with rejection is that it becomes demotivating at a certain point.