Mel Robbins on handling rejection: the pain is temporary, but quitting lets others pass you. Success requires hard work and repeated failure. Stay persistent.
A lot of people don't believe in themselves.
Well, what would you say to the person who's listening? Like, maybe they've been rejected after trying for a little bit. It's taking too long. And so that self-doubt is really there. What would you say to the person who's listening who's like, Benny, I want that, but I don't know how to start believing in myself?
How bad did the rejection hurt? Okay, that's first what I want to know.
How bad was it being rejected?
Is it bad? Yeah. You ask someone out when you're a kid and they say no and you're embarrassed for a few hours and then you come back to school the next day and nobody gives a shit because a new person got asked out and rejected. Do you really want to say it was this terrible thing and I couldn't get out of bed for 16 years? No, it wasn't that bad. It sucked. It sucked for a second. It wasn't that bad. Okay, so rejection's not that bad. So that's not your excuse. Okay, is it gonna be hard? Yeah, it's gonna be hard. What, you just wanna like immediately be the best at something in the world? No, you're gonna have to work at it, okay? You're gonna have to work at it, and you're gonna fail, and you're gonna have so many barriers, and you're gonna have so many times where you wanna quit, but you're not gonna, because you know that if you do quit, you're just giving space for that other person trying the same thing to just get right ahead of you.
Oh God. That's a good one. Yeah. That the second you quit, you actually just— Open the door for someone else.
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