It's therapy for those thrust into the real world after having been accorded unconditional approval by helicopter parents praising all from bowel movements onward.
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I have learned a trick today about rejection.
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If people need to take classes on rejection, the world has turned into a horrible place. I keep my cold eyes locked in a different place...
Most expensive waste of time & money. Also someone once pulled a stunt like that on me at a pub, dumped a pint on the crazy person
Most expensive waste of time & money. Also someone once pulled a stunt like that on me at a pub, dumped a pint on the crazy person
When I meet a pretty girl and beg her: 'Be so good as to come with me,' and she walks past without a word, this is what she means to say:
'You are no Duke with a famous name, no broad American with a Red Indian figure, level, brooding eyes and a skin tempered by the air of the prairies and the rivers that flow through them, you have never journeyed to the seven seas and voyaged on them wherever they may be, I don't know where. So why, pray, should a pretty girl like myself go with you?'
'You forget that no automobile swings you through the street in long thrusts; I see no gentlemen escorting you in a close half-circle, pressing on your skirts from behind and murmuring blessings on your head; your breasts are well laced into your bodice, but your thighs and hips make up for that restraint; you are wearing a taffeta dress with a pleated skirt such as delighted all of us last autumn, and yet you smile - inviting mortal danger - from time to time.'
'Yes, we're both in the right, and to keep us from being irrevocably aware of it, hadn't we better just go our separate ways home?'
'You are no Duke with a famous name, no broad American with a Red Indian figure, level, brooding eyes and a skin tempered by the air of the prairies and the rivers that flow through them, you have never journeyed to the seven seas and voyaged on them wherever they may be, I don't know where. So why, pray, should a pretty girl like myself go with you?'
'You forget that no automobile swings you through the street in long thrusts; I see no gentlemen escorting you in a close half-circle, pressing on your skirts from behind and murmuring blessings on your head; your breasts are well laced into your bodice, but your thighs and hips make up for that restraint; you are wearing a taffeta dress with a pleated skirt such as delighted all of us last autumn, and yet you smile - inviting mortal danger - from time to time.'
'Yes, we're both in the right, and to keep us from being irrevocably aware of it, hadn't we better just go our separate ways home?'
Coffee Challenge goes along the same lines. Interesting experiment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/noah-kagans-coffee-challenge-helps-you-get-over-fear-2014-8
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http://www.businessinsider.com/noah-kagans-coffee-challenge-helps-you-get-over-fear-2014-8
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He has a valid point, but I'm wondering HOW he expects people to grow from that.... Like we could grow in a way that we CAN be different?
If you have to attend a seminar to learn how to accept NO as an answer then I am very worried about you. Please stay out of the clubs. I believe NO has been an answer for centuries and most logical people agree that it is indeed an answer.
Not respecting someone's wishes when they say "no" is awful, entitled behaviour and is wwaaaayyyy too common, but I think OP is talking about something else.
Of course, any decent person respects others saying no. But being AFRAID of that answer is an entirely different thing. It's hard for some people to associate "no" with embarrassment or a lack of self worth and just avoid social situations altogether because of it. You can't ignore context and you have to have common sense of whether you should be asking something in the first place, but that's a different story.
Noah uses this in the context of entrepreneurs that have problems asking people to buy / use / try their product.
People hate rejection, and will do anything to avoid it
This can be detrimental to your business.
Overcoming the fear of rejection can be a very powerful and deliberating thing, and grow your business.
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You reject my best hand picked berries and let them go to waste you'll learn another thing about 'no' and be needing a PTSD seminar.
