After spending hours, day after day, applying for jobs, you get the dreaded rejection email. What a bummer! At this point, all you want to do is give up, and you definitely don’t want to respond to ...

I have spent my career in major gift fundraising, where hearing no is a daily part of the job. Throughout my life, I’ve been rejected from jobs, meeting requests, awards, and speaking opportunities.

A fear of rejection is an irrational and persistent fear of social exclusion. It can be a feature of social phobia or social anxiety disorder. Various tips can help with overcoming a fear of rejection ...

Hooray! You took a risk and put yourself out there. But after all of that emotional effort, it didn’t go as planned, and now you’re feeling just a bit wounded. Everyone deals with rejection at one ...

We’ve probably all heard or said this phrase countless times. However, despite the “fear of rejection” appearing so frequently, this phrase rarely seems questioned. One reason is that it’s a truism.

Four days before my son was to be born, I walked away from my job at a Fortune 100 company to begin building my startup. I built a team of engineers and we were four months into our venture when I was ...

What Is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)? Most people don’t like rejection. Be it in a romantic relationship, a friendship, or at work, it’s common to have negative, unpleasant feelings creep up.