The simple answer is: pretend it never happened. Doesn't matter if it's social, work related or emotional rejection; don't dare give it power! Winston Churchill defined success as "the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." Father of the light-bulb, Thomas Edison was deemed "too stupid to learn anything" by his teachers. As an inventor, it took him 1,000 failures to create the light-bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."
One of my favourite films is The Shawshank Redemption. Not just because I like to imitate Morgan Freeman's smooth intonation; but because it's packed with useful life lessons. For example, when Andy Dufresne is assigned a dilapidated library to look after, he begins writing weekly letters to the state senate for funds to improve it. Every-week he is disappointed by the state's lack of response. In fact, they don't just reject him; they completely ignore him! Yet he persists, writing two letters a week instead of one, for six years! In the end, boxes of books are delivered to the supervisors office plus a cheque for two hundred dollars. But it doesn't stop there, in Red's (Freeman) own words:
"And you'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it. He made deals with book clubs, charity groups. He bought remaindered books by the pound."
In the end, The State Appropriations Committee succumbed to Andy, on account of his persistent letter-writing campaign to improve prison life. All rejection, has the potential to affect your emotional health; which affects your thinking; and limits your potential to be conducive to success. This is why it's important to ignore any rejections. Lupe Vélez... a beautiful Mexican actress at the height of success ended her (whilst pregnant) life, after being rejected in love by Austrian actor, Harald Ramond. Needless to say, this is not the way to handle rejection.
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