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welcome to introspection ft. harsehaj! ⭐️ i’m harsehaj, an 18 y/o always up to something in social good x tech.
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onto today’s topic: how to “put yourself out there” 🔭
in one sentence: get over your fear of rejection.
fearing rejection and embarrassment holds us back from so much. have a crazy content creation idea but worried about it being sent into groupchats? well, i’m not going to lie to you and say that your video won’t be sent into groupchats and faced with negativity — it probably will, but i will tell you the weirdest ideas are always the ones that do extremely well. 🚀 why let the possibility of 4 people laughing at you behind their screens stop you from reaching 4 million?
if i let my fear of rejection get in my way i wouldn’t have:
walked into dozens of uc berkeley lectures despite not being a student there. 🤓
got an internship at a healthtech startup in 11th grade.
started this daily blog.
signed up for all sorts of social events and made lifelong friendships.
been flown out to denmark to speak at a conference.
and so, so much more.
looking at a really exciting internship application, but don’t meet all of the requirements? submit your resume anyways, the worst case scenario is a rejection email, and who cares? getting over your fear of rejection increases your odds of success from its initial 0%.
once you accept that rejection and embarrassment are part of the process, it becomes so much easier to put yourself out there. it’s easier to form connections with people in real life, reach greater audiences with your content, get grants and support for your projects, and unlock countless opportunities. 🔐
we don’t put ourselves out there (both socially and professionally) because rejection is scary, but i’d say the amazing feeling of one success far outweighs the momentary embarrassment you’ll feel for 100 failures.
put yourself out there. (:
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