A short YouTube talk by Kevin "KD" Dorsey titled "The Biology of Rejection" offering practical psychological strategies for handling rejection. The speaker emphasizes that rejection is inevitable and that proactively accepting this fact (expecting "no") reduces emotional pain because the mind can pre-process the outcome; the excerpt focuses on mindset reframing to lessen hurt from objections, negative interactions, or being told no.
And so we're going to talk about here real quick how to deal with rejection when it occurs. Okay? Now, the first step in this is actually knowing that it is going to occur, right? It's going to happen. And just accepting that is a big step because so often we're actually hoping it doesn't happen, which makes it even worse when it does. Versus the acceptance of I'm going to get rejected, I'm going to be told no helps ease it when it does happen because your brain has already had some time to process it versus when we're always thinking like, I hope I don't get rejected. I hope I don't get this, you know, objection. I hope I don't get yelled at on the phone like whatever else. It's actually setting us up for more pain when it does. So the first step for rejection is accepting it is going to occur.
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