Rejection is a universal and universally disliked experience. It’s also one that each of us experiences differently. Sometimes, getting rejected hurts more than we expect, especially if our immediate response is to become self-critical.
Source: Harvard Business Review, April 6, 2016.
I think a lot of us have a gut instinct to question ourselves in the face of rejection,” said Lauren Howe, “but we’ll be better off pausing and taking a moment to think about what happened that wasn’t about us. What were the situational factors that might have led to this outcome? What was going on with the timing or with the other person?”