Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Turn REJECTIONS into REWARDS with the 'Go for No' Game! #shorts

4 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short motivational clip, the speaker explains a hands‑on method called the “Go for No” game to reframe rejection as a driver of success. The practice uses two jars filled with small stones; each time the speaker receives a “no,” a stone is moved from the first jar to the second. After accumulating 50 stones (i.e., 50 rejections), the speaker rewards themselves with a massage. This tactile ritual conditions the brain to seek out rejections, because each no brings the speaker closer to a tangible reward. By focusing on collecting nos rather than avoiding them, the speaker reports that a larger flow of yeses naturally follows, as the fear of rejection diminishes and persistence increases.

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It's actually super fun because I want to train your brain to be excited about analyzing these deals and getting through the nos. And I had— is it— I have a little beautiful jar. At least it used to be here. Seems my jars disappeared and it had these little stones in it. And every time I got a no, I would put— oh, here's my stones. I don't know where my jar went. That's weird. Anyway, so these pretty little gems, you see those? Because I needed something pretty and I like touching and let's tactileize all the things. So I would take these and I'd take it from one jar and I'd put it into another jar. And when I got 50 of these, 50 nos, then I got to go get a massage. It was like the reward. So it's training my brain to get as many nos, get as quickly as I possibly can, because by doing that, then I get a reward for it. And what happens is, at the same time, is I get a whole world of yeses, right? Right. We're only— when we're only tracking for the yeses, then every time we get a no, our brain is like, sad, right? Sad. We feel the rejection.