She told me that she has shifted her focus to the part of the process she can control: the attempts, not the outcomes.
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Sumner tried to egg her on by saying that if she added her rejection, she would get the group one step closer to a party—every 100 rejections, they had a party. A party to celebrate rejections, Vickers thought, was absurd.
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difference between a rejection collection and a failure CV is the former’s emphasis on the collective. Vickers observed that a “CV is about the narrative of you,” whereas the rejection collection “isn’t all about you.” It’s about the effort of the group.
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She said that the point isn’t to add more lines to the collection or our CVs. It’s to take bigger risks and ensure that rejection isn’t trimming our sails. She wanted the collection to give us a question that we could use to guide our decisions: What would I chase after if I weren’t afraid of rejection?
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- [note::"Ensure that rejection isn't trimming our sails" definitely resonates with me. Sure, I may not get the Project Manager position at CHOP, but what if I did? How transformative would that level of responsibility be on my life? Pretty transformative, I'd think.]