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The 100 Rejection Challenge 💪
DAY ONE: THE MOST TERRIFYING WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😰 The challenge began on a Monday morning in January when I walked into a Krispy Kreme and asked if they would make me a donut in the shape of the Olympic rings, and the employee stared at me for approximately three seconds before saying no with the particular expression reserved for customers whose requests suggest either creativity or mental illness and she was not sure which, and I thanked her and walked out and drove to my car where I sat for ten minutes with my heart pounding and my face burning from the specific shame of having been rejected for an absurd request that I had made deliberately as the first step in a hundred-day challenge to get rejected at least once every day for one hundred consecutive days, a challenge I had designed to systematically desensitize myself to the fear of rejection that had been controlling every significant decision of my life since childhood 🍩
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