limitations. Silliness isn’t appropriate in every real-life situation, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to rely on humor to help me through every rejection attempt—especially when the stakes are high and the outcomes have real significance. Also, endorphins address only the results of rejection—the pain. They don’t address the fear and the anticipation of rejection, which are the roots of rejection’s destructive power. But it also provoked another question: If something can’t hurt me, then why should it scare me? It turned out it’s this question that proved to be pivotal in my fight with
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