Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Business & Finance, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781847941459
Published: May 2016
Page Extent: 240
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

Rejection Proof

Formats & Editions

Product Image
Paperback
About the book

Rejection? It's nothing to be afraid of ...

Maybe you avoid situations where you might be rejected. You don't apply for that dream job. You don't ask for that pay rise. You don't ask that person on a date. But it doesn't have to be that way - the only thing standing between you and your goals ... is you.

Jia Jiang had allowed his fear of rejection to rule his life. But he decided to take radical action: he quit his job and spent 100 days deliberately seeking out scenarios where he would likely be rejected, from ordering donuts interlinked and iced like the Olympic rings to asking to pilot a light aircraft. And something remarkable happened; Jia not only learned how to cope with rejection but also discovered that even the most outrageous request may be...

About the Author

Jia Jiang

Jia Jiang

Jia Jiang is founder of the popular blog and video series ‘100 Days of Rejection’. His story has been covered by dozens of news outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Yahoo! News, the Huffington Post, Forbes, Inc.com, MTV, Gawker, the Daily Mail, Fox News and CBS’s The Jeff Probst Show. A native of Beijing, China, Jiang came to the United States as a teenager to pursue his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Jiang holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

Read more

More titles by this author

There are no more products for this author.