Dear Next Generation: Coping With Rejection

Dear Next Generation: Coping With Rejection
Dear Next Generation, an advice column from readers to young people. Photo by Shutterstock
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Throughout our lives, we all confront the challenge of rejection in our personal relationships, at school, the workplace, and so on. Of course, some folks struggle with this sense of loss more than others. How individuals deal with rejection can partially shape the trajectory of their lives.

Some people can expect the worst if they become accustomed to rejection and crawl into a shell of anxiety and depression as a result. By contrast, others might strive to build character traits such as motivation and perseverance due to several rejections. Famous athletes, business folks, entertainers, military leaders, etc., often have had to toil for years through trial and error before they “made it.”