29. The Ted talk about rejection that will change your life.

It was a random day for me. I got up at normal time and then i messaged an ad film director whom i have send my showreel that how he felt about it. I met this ad film director two days ago and he gave me some very valuable advises. His name is Suresh Triveni and he has directed hundreds of ads including that Famous Mauka Mauka Ad during world cup. He is also making a film with Vidya Balan so he has left Ad film world for a while. He asked me to send him my showreel and i was really happy to send it to him. He saw it after i messaged him and he asked me to send him my showreel which i did but i guess he didn't like it and messaged back that it wasn't advertising material. For some unknown reasons i wasn't demotivated reading about his rejection to my showreel instead i took it as a challenge to prove to him that before he will finish his film, i will be directing ad films for all brands and i will be touted as the busiest ad film director in the Mumbai. I will out of my comfort zone and beg people to give me on ad film. I know i will get one and it is a matter of time. 

When you really desire something, the world helps you. I opened my laptop and there was a video i was about to see last night but i slept before watching it. It was a TED talk by Jia Jiang who was well paid executive who left his job to start his own company but his company didn't do well. He realized that he has really messed up his life leaving the job and now as the bank balance was getting empty he has to find a way to support him. His wife was a really good wife, whom he mentions alot in his book as his support and a great friend. He had this fear of rejections and he wanted to overcome them. He found online website of Jason Compley who is a Canadian entrepreneur who teaches about how to overcome rejections. His methods are that to overcome rejections, there is only one methods - get rejected as often as possible and then your fear will go away.

Jia decided to chase a challenge of getting rejected 100 times in next few months. Initially apprehensive he started making illogical requests to the strangers just to get rejected and to his surprise, many of the times he got his request accepted. Since he also decided to make a video out of it so there are videos on youtube about his videos where he gets rejected by people for his unreasonable requests. One of his requests of having his doughnuts in Olympic rings shaped went viral and gathered tremendous news coverage. He became a celebrity of sorts and soon his fear of rejection was not just vanished, he got so many offers from all over the world. 

His story really motivated me and i send his Ted talk link to many people but no one responded. Most of the people around me are not ready to change their lives. I was. I downloaded his book "Rejection Proof" and I finished it in a day because it was very interesting and motivating. It was highly motivating and it sort of changed my life and gave me new goals of life. 

I am going to try his method and will seek rejections from tomorrow. But i have also learned magic and will try to attract people with my magic trick. By the time, those people who are not doing anything, just watch his video blog and also read his book. The book is available on amazon.
   

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