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Rejection Isn’t Personal - by Heather Havrilesky

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Even when it sounds very personal, try not to take it personally.

Rejection Isn’t Personal Even when it sounds very personal, try not to take it personally. Heather Havrilesky Oct 30, 2024 561 39 107 Share Woman Fleeing Fear Itself (1980) by Dorothea Tanning How other people feel about you often has nothing whatsoever to do with you. The vast majority of dismissive reactions you receive in the world are purely a manifestation of the culture’s current norms, most of them utterly arbitrary and formed in hopelessly restrictive, defensive, or hierarchical microcosms. It’s not that these norms don’t function smoothly to maintain the status quo or keep people feel

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