“1.0 out of 5 stars A piece of junk
This is a ‘rant’ by a totally untalented ‘author’ who conned several thousand people into buying this pointless connection of words. Using ‘blog’ connections he got this piece of junk recommended on the 48 days website. He should put away his pen, refund everyone’s money, then go and take a writing course! ”

This is a review a person left about my manifesto on Amazon a couple of days ago, ouch! To be perfectly honest with you when I saw it I was mad. I have read so many good blog posts and books about how to deal with rejection, I wrote a post about it a couples of days ago, so you would think I would brush this off and keep going. However, despite all the knowledge it still hurt and I was still upset, but only for a little while.

Working through the process

Having this great information and knowledge is a process that you have to work through once you’re faced with this kind of situation. In the past I was all emotion and had nothing but emotional reactions to rejection or criticism, now I can take that knowledge and apply it, while it might not be that very moment, I do get to the point where I can brush it off.

How do would you deal with it? Would you react emotional or do you have your own process?

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