Redditors who take rejection like it's nothing, what's your secret to over come such?

I started not bothering much with "rejection" issues when I started thinking of these rejections less as indiviudal failures, and more as a part of the learning process (or just the process) towards eventual success.

Ask someone out and get rejected? It stings, but if I don't ask enough people out, I won't be in a relationship, back to drawing board. Also, clearly we probably weren't compatible and I saved some time and stress.

Didn't get the job? Get as much constructive criticism as possible towards the next one. This one wasn't as good a fit as I thought, move on to the next.

These are just examples, and it really helps a lot (on the practical level) to have as many irons in the fire as possible for anything you are pursuing. That way, losing out on one doesn't feel devastating.

The real key is that a singled failed attempt doesn't make you failure, and attempts are the only way you get anything, so you have to fail some time. In a way, the more you are failing, the better you're doing because it means you are trying a bunch of things and success is a numbers game as much as it is about talent or luck.

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