How To Get Comfortable Hearing “No” In Your Career
It’s not a mark on your record
Orr actually writes a bit about handling career rejection on her site, but one quote that really resonated was this: “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth,” and she’s 100 percent correct. What has truly changed when someone says “no?” Nothing. In fact, things only change when you hear the “Yes.” But however you felt about yourself, and whatever skills and accomplishments you knew you had before hearing no– those didn’t diminish even a bit after hearing it.