2015-04-14
50 分钟We're all held back by this rejection in some way, our fear of rejection.
It's the type of fear that we keep telling ourselves that we shouldn't try this.
People wouldn't like it.
I would seem silly, but I want the people to not have that fear.
So before I dive into the actual introduction for this week's episode, you may hear a little bit of noise in the background.
It's funny, I call it noise because I'm from New York City, but what I'm talking about is all sorts of tweets and birds and nature sounds.
I'm recording this, actually, at the crack of dawn, sitting on the side of a mountain in Costa Rica, where we're on retreat for our good life project immersion.
And it's very early.
The rooster's time clock is a little bit off.
He starts crowing here at about 330 in the morning, which is kind of funny, but it's a beautiful, incredible place to be.
So if you hear all sorts of nature sounds in the background, that's what's going on.
It's not actually horns or things that you might normally see in New York city, where I normally do these.
So today's conversation really loved.
Jia Jiang is a guy who came to the United States from China at a very young age on his own because he was obsessed with the possibility of entrepreneurship.
And when he got here, he discovered not only that he ended up in a den of criminals, but that he was terrified.
He was shut down by the idea of rejection.
And rather than running from it, he actually ran into it and launched what he called his rejection project, and every day started challenging himself to be rejected.
What came out of that is a pretty incredible adventure that's also led to a book that we're going to go into.
So really excited to be sitting down and sharing this conversation with Xiajiang, and I hope you guys enjoyed as well.
I'm Jonathan Fields.