Being Left Out - Recovering from Rejection with Dr. Michael Gervais #shorts

There was 10 gurus in the field. When I was just getting in, they were going to get away for a weekend, kind of a beer and pizza and learning kind of thing. And they said, look, we need to get the next generation okay. So then year two comes around, and they're doing it in my hometown. I didn't get invited. I was the one that didn't get invited back. And so I called the main person and I said. I said, I'm incredibly disappointed to not be included. They were the most influential people in the profession, and I didn't get asked. I wasn't good enough to be asked back. I said, look, I'm really disappointed. I'm not sure what happened. And I was hoping that he would explain something. And he says, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, Mike, I should have called you. I said, just pause. And I said, you know, I. I'm good. And I could feel this dragon wake up. And I know that dragon. I had so much anxiety as a kid, I ended up not knowing how to work with it that I used anger and violence as a way to express it. And so I could feel that dragon that I thought was resting. I could feel it wake up. And I said, fuck, I'm not putting it down, and I am not asking this dragon to go back in the cage.