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Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible by [Jia Jiang]

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Rejection? It's nothing to be afraid of …

Maybe you avoid situations where you might be rejected. You don't apply for that dream job. You don't ask for that pay rise. You don’t ask that person on a date. But it doesn't have to be that way – the only thing standing between you and your goals … is you.

Jia Jiang had allowed his fear of rejection to rule his life. But he decided to take radical action: he quit his job and spent 100 days deliberately seeking out scenarios where he would likely be rejected, from ordering donuts interlinked and iced like the Olympic rings to asking to pilot a light aircraft. And something remarkable happened; Jia not only learned how to cope with rejection but also discovered that even the most outrageous request may be granted – if you ask in the right way.

In this infectiously positive book Jia shares what he learned in his 100 Days of Rejection, explaining how to turn a 'no' into a 'yes', and revealing how you too can become Rejection Proof and achieve your dreams.

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''Rejection Proof smashes fear in the face with a one-two punch. You'll laugh out loud at Jia's crazy social experiments, but you'll also go away thinking differently about what you can accomplish.'' --Chris Guillebeau, author of The Happiness of Pursuit and The $100 Startup

''I hope you buy two copies of this book because as soon as you read it, you'll want to give it to someone else who needs a boost of bravery too.'' --Jon Acuff, author of Do Over and Start

''Rejection Proof is a fun, thoughtful examination of how to overcome our fears and dare to live more boldly. You have no idea what you can achieve until you try!'' --Nancy Duarte, author of Slide:ology

''A clever and inspiring read that will change the way you approach anything that may seem out of reach. This book made me want to look fear in the eye...and then kick it in the ass.'' --Alison Levine, author of On the Edge --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Jia Jiang is founder of the popular blog and video series 100 Days of Rejection. His story has been covered by dozens of news outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Yahoo News, the Huffington Post, Forbes, Inc.com, MTV, Gawker, the Daily Mail, Fox News, and CBS's The Jeff Probst Show. A native of Beijing, Jiang came to the United States as a teenager to pursue his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer in Los Angeles. His voice credits range from radio commercials and television narration to animation and video game characters. Stage trained at Boston College, he has performed works from Shakespeare and the classics to contemporary drama and comedy. His audiobook narration has won four AudioFile Earphones Awards.

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The founder of the '100 Days of Rejection' project, which has received almost seven million hits on YouTube, reveals how we can overcome the fear of rejection, both at work and in our personal lives. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Rejection? It’s nothing to be afraid of …

Maybe you avoid situations where you might be rejected. You don’t apply for that dream job. You don’t ask for that pay rise. You don’t ask that person on a date. But it doesn’t have to be that way – the only thing standing between you and your goals … is you.

Jia Jiang had allowed his fear of rejection to rule his life. But he decided to take radical action: he quit his job and spent 100 days deliberately seeking out scenarios where he would likely be rejected, from ordering donuts interlinked and iced like the Olympic rings to asking to pilot a light aircraft. And something remarkable happened; Jia not only learned how to cope with rejection but also discovered that even the most outrageous request may be granted – if you ask in the right way.

In this infectiously positive book Jia shares what he learned in his 100 Days of Rejection, explaining how to turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’, and revealing how you too can become Rejection Proof and achieve your dreams.

Rejection Proof smashes fear in the face with a one-two punch. You'll laugh out loud at Jia's crazy social experiments, but you'll also go away thinking differently about what you can accomplish.
Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author of The $100 Startup --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Chapter 1

Meeting Rejection

You’re probably wondering why I was standing at this man’s front door and what I meant by “special project.” Was this a new sales strategy I was practicing? A dare? A social experiment? Actually, it was a little bit of each. It was part of a one-hundred-day journey to overcome my fear of rejection--a journey that gave me a new perspective on business and humanity, and gave me tools to be better at almost everything. By challenging myself to seek out rejection again and again, I came to see rejection--and even the world around me--very differently. It changed my life--and I hope that by reading about my journey, it might change yours as well.

But before I tell you what happened next, maybe I should go back a bit--back to the start.

It was July 4, 2012, just after sunset. Thousands of people were gathered at our local community park, waiting for the Independence Day fireworks to start. My wife, Tracy, sat next to me on our blanket, rubbing her belly. She was eight months pregnant with our first child. All around us, kids were running with Frisbees and ice cream cones, families were unpacking picnic baskets, beer bottles clinked, and laughter filled the air. Everyone seemed so happy, so filled with summertime joy.

Everyone but me.

In many ways, I was living the American dream. At just thirty years old, I had a secure six-figure job at a Fortune 500 company. Tracy and I owned a 3,700-square-foot house with a pond view. We even had a golden retriever named Jumbo--the quintessential suburban American dog--and now we were weeks away from the birth of our son. Best of all, my wife and I had an incredible relationship, and not a day went by that I didn’t realize how lucky I was to be loved by such an amazing woman. In other words, I should have been overjoyed with my circumstances. But the truth was, I was as depressed as I could be. My misery wasn’t personal, though--it was professional.

I grew up in Beijing, China, at a time when every school-age child was taught to be a model worker and a building block for the growth of the nation. But being a model worker--in China or anywhere--had never been my dream. Instead, ever since I was little, I had fantasized about being an entrepreneur. While other kids played sports or video games, I devoured the biographies of Thomas Edison and Panasonic founder Konosuke Matsushita, looking for clues about how to become a great innovator. When I was fourteen, Bill Gates visited Beijing, his first-ever trip to my hometown. And I became obsessed with his story of founding Microsoft. I tore down all the sports memorabilia I had on my bedroom walls and made my fantasy about entrepreneurship a life goal. I vowed to become the next Bill Gates and invent an amazing technology product that would take the world by storm. I pestered my family into buying me a brand-new top-of-the-line computer and started teaching myself how to write programming code. I even wrote a letter to them (which I still have) promising that my company would be so successful that I would buy Microsoft by the time I was twenty-five. Drawn in by flashy Hollywood depictions of America and the fact that Bill Gates lived there, I also believed I would one day move to the United States to fulfill that destiny.

When I was sixteen, I was presented with an opportunity to become a high school exchange student in the United States and go to an American college afterward. I jumped on it. The transition was difficult, to say the least. The language and culture barriers were a struggle to overcome, and I was sad to leave my loving family. To make matters worse, the situation I walked into was not a good one. My first year in the United States was spent in rural Louisiana, of all places, and the exchange program did a lousy job background-checking my host family. As a result, my first “home away from home” was in the creepy house of a family of criminals. I learned that their older son had been convicted of murder a year prior to my arrival, and it was his bed that I slept in. Even worse, two days after my arrival, my host parents stole all my money.

Sleeping in the bed of a murderer and losing all my money was not the introduction to America that I’d been expecting. I’d left the protective, supportive bubble of my own family in China only to land with a family that immediately broke my trust. It scared me, and I didn’t know what to do. Ultimately, I reported their theft to my high school superintendent, who then reported it to the police. My host parents were arrested, and the mortified folks at the exchange program moved me to another home--luckily, the home of a wonderful family. There I not only re-experienced love and trust, gained spiritual faith, I also learned that there are good people and bad people in the world, and they would certainly not treat me the same way.

Throughout this shaky start, my dream of becoming an entrepreneur in America stayed as strong as ever. In fact, I didn’t believe there was any way that I could fail. Becoming an entrepreneur felt more like my fate or destiny than any sort of choice on my part. The goal was so deeply embedded in my heart that I don’t think I could have shaken it if I tried.

After one year in high school, and another six months at an English as a second language institute, my English had vastly improved. It was January 1999; I was ready for college. I still remember my first day at the University of Utah. I was just seventeen years old. There had been a snowstorm the night before, and the entire campus was covered in white. I can still hear the sounds my feet made--voo, voo, voo--as I walked through the snow to class that morning, leaving the first set of footprints of the day. The universe was a fresh snowfield in front of me, ready for me to blaze my own trail and become the next great immigrant entrepreneur in America. I had youth, hope, and energy on my side. Everything seemed possible.

My first real chance to launch my entrepreneurial dream came while I was still in college. For years, I’d constantly been thinking up cool new devices that I could invent. One day, as I was flipping through an old photo album, I saw a picture of myself roller-skating as a kid. Some of my happiest childhood memories were of roller-skating with my friends. Suddenly, I started thinking about how cool it would be to combine a tennis shoe with a Rollerblade. Kids and adults could be walking one moment and gliding around with their friends the next. The world would become a giant rink, and happiness would be widespread!

Excited, I pulled out my sketchbook and started drawing out various ideas for how to functionally embed wheels into a shoe. I loved the idea so much that I even drew a formal blueprint to submit with a future patent application. It took me an entire weekend. Afterward, I felt like I’d created the Mona Lisa.

Sure, it may not have been the most life-changing idea the world had ever seen. But it was my idea, and I thought it was awesome, and it could be the invention that launched my entrepreneurial career.

I have an uncle in San Diego--my father’s younger brother--whom I’ve always held in extremely high regard. While my parents were both very easygoing, my uncle was very strict and demanding, which somehow made me want his approval even more. To be honest, I was scared of him as a child. But I always knew that he cared about me and wanted me to succeed. After I moved to the United States, he and I became even closer, and I viewed him almost as another father, so much so that I would later name my son after him. I always felt much surer of myself when he liked my ideas and my choices. So I sent him a copy of my drawings, excited to get his reaction to the “shoes with wheels” idea and hoping for encouragement.

Imagine my disappointment when instead of support I received a verbal smackdown. My uncle thought my idea was silly, and he chastised me for focusing on something so far-fetched when I should be concentrating on school and improving my English.

I felt so dispirited that I tossed my sketches into a drawer and never moved forward with the idea. If my own uncle had rejected my idea, I felt sure that the world would hate it even more--and I wanted no part of being rejected in public by strangers. Instead, I focused on getting good grades and continuing to improve my English. Using thousands of flash cards, I spent many hours every day learning and memorizing new English words. Excelling at school was a surefire way to win the approval of my family, especially my uncle. And I didn’t just want their approval--I craved it. I told myself that straight A’s and an impressive vocabulary might also make me a better entrepreneur someday.

My good grades did pay off in some way. I landed a scholarship offer from Brigham Young University, where I transferred and completed college. Yet I felt like I’d missed something much bigger.

Two years later, a man named Roger Adams patented exactly the same idea (shoe-skates) and founded the company Heelys. In 2007, just after its IPO, Heelys was valued at almost $1 billion. Meanwhile, my blueprint sat in a drawer, gathering dust. Sadly, it’s not the only blueprint in there. Over the years, I’ve come up with dozens of new ideas that I thought had the potential to turn into successful products. But rather than pursuing them, I just added them to the pile--and then gently closed the drawer.

Of course, there’s no guarantee that my shoe-skate innovation would have succeeded the same way that Adams’s did--or that any of my other ideas would have become the foundation of a successful company. But I never even gave them--or myself--a chance to find out. I rejected my own ideas before they could be rejected by the world. Giving up at the first sign of rejection felt much safer than putting my ideas out there to be criticized. It was so much easier to do the rejecting all by myself.

But every time I saw kids skating on Heelys in malls, sidewalks, and playgrounds, every time I read an article about Adams turning his childhood passion into a pop culture craze, I thought about what could have been. The pain and regret were unbearable.

I thought that I’d feel the freedom to become an entrepreneur after I graduated from college, with my computer science degree fresh in hand. But the opposite happened. The family and social pressures didn’t fade away. If anything, they became stronger. Instead of winning others’ approval by being a star student, I now wanted to win their admiration by having a strong and stable career. I hadn’t started a company in college, and I didn’t start one after college either. Instead, I tried out job after job until I realized that being a computer programmer wasn’t my thing. Scared that I’d chosen the wrong path, I changed career tracks in a way that made me feel safe: I reentered the familiar comforts of school, this time pursuing an MBA at Duke University. Afterward, I took a marketing job at a Fortune 500 company. I thought the accolades and approval I would receive from my prestigious degree and my new six-figure income would satisfy my inner entrepreneur. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

On the first day of my new job, my boss asked me write a short self-introduction. One of the questions was “What would you do if you weren’t doing this?” Without hesitation, I wrote down “Being an entrepreneur.” Someone then asked me: “Then why aren’t you?” I didn’t know how to answer it.

It’s amazing how fast the years fly by--and how big the gap can grow between your vision for yourself and the reality of your life. Simply put, I’d sold out my dream. That teenager walking on snow hadn’t become the next Bill Gates. Instead, he became a marketing manager sitting quietly on his cozy little rung of the corporate ladder, miserably collecting good income. Once in a while, the envy of friends or the pride of my family would give me temporary but false assurance that I was doing well in life. But for me, the relentless ticking clock of life was like the sun, melting away the snowfield of my dreams and ambition. I remember one day, after coming back from work, I locked myself in my closet, sobbing for hours. I hadn’t cried for a long time.

Now, sitting on our July 4 blanket, I couldn’t help feeling that my entrepreneurial dream was over before it ever took off. If I hadn’t taken the leap to try building a start‑up as an eighteen-year-old college student, or as a twenty-two-year-old single guy, or as a twenty-eight-year-old MBA, how could I do it as a thirty-year-old middle manager just weeks from becoming a father? Being a parent brought with it a whole new set of responsibilities that I thought would require me to put my dream permanently to rest.

A loud explosion went off in the sky, and the darkness lit up with bright colors. Sitting there, contemplating my future, it was almost as if I could see in the sky an imaginary slide show of what the rest of my life would look like. At work, I’d continue to sell more products, train more employees, and establish more processes. At home, we’d have one or two more kids, sending them off to school and eventually to college. The slide show ended at my own funeral, with someone giving a touching but typical eulogy praising my loyalty and dependability. It was a eulogy for just another good guy--not the world-changing entrepreneur I had dreamed of becoming.

Tracy looked over at me. For weeks, she’d known that I was miserable, and she knew why. “You can have another car, house, promotion, or job. But you can’t live with this kind of regret,” she said. And then my wife--my very pregnant wife--did something amazing. She issued me a challenge. She told me to quit my job, take six months to start a company from scratch, and work as hard as I could to build it. If by the end of that time I still had no traction and no investment, I would hop back on the corporate ladder. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Jia Jiang is the founder of 100 Days of Rejection, speaker and author of Rejection Proof. Several years after Jia Jiang's career in the corporate, he took a life altering risk and stepped into the unknown world of entrepreneurship, which resulted in everyone's biggest fear... REJECTION.

This became the catalyst that set Jia on the path to his true calling. To conquer the fear of rejection, Jia embarked on a personal quest and started a blog to face 100 Days of Rejection. His journey revealed a world that was hidden in plain sight, a world where people are much kinder than we imagine, discovering that rejection can be much less painful than we believe, and that it is the fear of rejection that is much more destructive than we know.

Jia has taken his message to the stage and is an outstanding keynote speaker. His TedX talk is the top 200 out of the 60,000 that have ever been given. Also, you can read his story that has been shared on Bloomberg Businessweek, Yahoo News, CNN, Time Magazine, etc. Jia's journey has captivated audiences in live performances, as well as through a steady stream of teaching life skills through social media.

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Chandrashekar kunder

Courage building 💪 book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 May 2022

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- love how he breaks down the concept of rejection
- breaking some of the exercises he has done
- Project 100 days of rejection

Definitely recommend this recommend if you want social freedom

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 28 January 2021

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What Jia did is truly inspiring. His honesty and authenticity comes across in the book. He is not afraid to share his vulnerability. One of his learnings is, focus your efforts on what you can control, not on what you cannot. Worth giving it a shot.

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shaheen

Amazing book!!.though it's not possible to go the extent he did.but yeah we can try the things which are literally blocking us from moving forward.

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go the extent he did.but yeah we can try the things in our own ways.i liked the idea. Everyone need to learn this in some point of their life

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R. Singh

One of the best books I've read in my life

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 November 2020

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Jia Jiang is such a humble guy. I'm so glad I found this book.
Simply awesome!
This needs to be read by everyone.

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Amazing book...... Read it completely and love it by ❤️

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Mayuri

Amazing book .. if you can't read full just read first three chapters and you will still gain a lot

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 18 July 2019

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One books whose first hundred page only were capable to change my life

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Priya K

Must read for all those who hate rejections

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 4 December 2018

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Jia jiang is hilarious. I bought this book after I saw his ted talk and this book was so worth it.

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Mohammad Moonis

Must read book to overcome the fear of failure. ...

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Must read book to overcome the fear of failure. It may not be guide or sure shot formula but it will help you a lot. It can be helpful to the budding entrepreneurs.

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Philip Atkinson

Groundbreaking and Innovative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 October 2019

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Rejection has to be the biggest self limiting factor in people failing to master their true potential. In the book the author takes you through his personal journey at the same time sketching out strategies for the reader to practise. I like to think i have learned more from my failures than my successes and this book has forced me to experiment more and attract rejection so I can deal with it as a friend rather than a foe. Well written and personable.

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Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 April 2022

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Jia is clearly a very funny and sharp guy. I enjoyed reading his stories but also got some excellent food for thought on rejection, something very few people handle well. I will definitely be referring to his notes from time to time to refresh my memory.

The book was also pretty concise. The first half was really good although the second half started to get a bit laboured and repetitive at times, hence 4 stars not 5.

Recommended.

Patrick

Funny and motivating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 August 2022

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Such a great read. Was funny listening to the stories that the author offered and also motivating in getting over fear of rejection. It won’t cure you. However, it will certainly provide the blueprints for improving yourself and your confidence. Would highly recommend for anyone low on confidence when it comes to their fear of rejection.

Vanessa Cobb

Highly Motivating

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Really enjoyed the authenticity and simplicity that Jiang brought to his project and that comes to life in reading his book. For me, returning to self employment after five years in a cosy workplace feels like a huge uncomfortable challenge but this book has made the adventure feel more exciting than ever. The sum of lessons Jiang shares are crystal clear and refreshingly derived directly from experience, not simple re-hashed from the words of wisdom of others. Probably my best read this year.

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Harriet Morris

Thought Provoking

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Initially I feel a bit dismayed that only a couple of chapters in this looked like some too good to be true reversal of fortune fairy tale. "How does this help those of us who didn't happen to shoot a video that went viral after about five days?" I thought - "I cannot relate to that and I have lost all interest" .... But I did pick it up the next day. Fortunately it had some useful meditations on the evolutionary reasons for rejection fear and how you can stand up to it, plus the idea that rejection has a number - try enough times and someone will probably say yes.

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