Rejection Therapy
Now here’s an interesting game: for 30 days straight, you pass if every single day you’re rejected at least once. This could be when asking for a discount on something or not receiving a ‘hello’ back when you greet someone while out walking.
The key here is that if you ask for something and actually get it, it doesn’t count. You need to ask for so much that you’re rejected. The fact that asking for a ‘hello’ is potentially too much says a lot about our society…
If it gets to October 2011 and I still haven’t tried this, someone please nudge me!
http://rejectiontherapy.com/rules/
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nudge nudge… where is the therapy bit by the way? does the society need therapy if you pass?
arjunchandra
October 5, 2010 at 10:59 pm
The therapy comes from pushing your boundaries for a month, with the result that you understand that rejection is ok and a sign that you’re actually asking for whatever it is that you want.
If when you put yourself in a difficult situation where you might be rejected you feel fear, you’re doing it right!
How will you craft your first rejection? “Can I go gliding for free today if I promise to teach someone someday?”. That might work (or you might get to glide for free)!
Stefan
October 5, 2010 at 11:06 pm
I guess it makes sense to truly understand what you want, assuming this want business is a bit uncertain generally, by not letting go at the first rejection. I have no real clue what I want for instance. If one never gets it, then maybe there is something wrong and one learns what not to do at some point, learning some kind of limit of oneself. If one gets it, one still learns something about oneself. For wanting something that one feels uncomfortable yet right with can indeed only make one learn about themselves. Keep on stubbornly trying till you learn something about yourself, seems like what you are suggesting? I guess, if you know yourself, you can manage your usefulness better, and that can be satisfying indeed. However, I suppose being stubborn is not something that comes naturally to everyone, or it may just be suppressed due to some freak social norm, hence why this is a therapy?
arjunchandra
October 6, 2010 at 12:25 am
Maybe the way I will craft it is by ‘Making a random non-trusting/cold girl talk to me for at least half an hour’. If I can’t then that is a rejection. If I can then the duration becomes an hour…
arjunchandra
October 6, 2010 at 12:41 am