Overcoming Rejection

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Overcoming Rejection

Coursera · Intermediate ·🚀 Entrepreneurship & Startups ·4w ago

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Recovering from rejection in entrepreneurship using emotional intelligence

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This course gives you the practical, emotionally intelligent toolkit you need to recover from rejection, mine it for insight, and keep moving toward the life you actually want. You'll reframe the way your brain processes disappointment, get specific about the kind of rejection you've experienced instead of letting one no spiral into a global story, and pick up techniques like revisionist history, the sunk-cost question, the "and..." technique for negative self-talk, and the daily three-things practice that builds self-respect through action. What sets this course apart is the honest, practical voice it brings to a topic most self-help frameworks tiptoe around. You'll get the science of why rejection hurts, the theater tradition for receiving feedback without defending, and the values exercise that connects what hurts to what you actually care about. Whether you've just been turned down for the role of your career or you've been quietly carrying an old no for years, you'll leave with concrete moves to make this week and a clearer sense of where you're going next. You'll stop letting rejection write the story.
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