The only way to achieve anything is to become comfortable with rejection. Here’s how

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There’s a poster on the wall of the gym I use, a place frequented by many aspiring British athletes. It says simply: “You lose 100% of the chances you don’t take.”

No one likes to be rejected, to take a chance, to put in huge effort only to be rebuffed. But if you want to succeed at anything in life, you have to put yourself forward. You have to take the chance that you’ll be rejected. There’s no choice – what it says on that poster is absolutely right. The alternative is to be 100% certain you’ll never realise your dreams....

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/rejection-helps-jk-rowling-james-dyson-success?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits