http://rejectiontherapy.com/

http://rejectiontherapy.com/

Buy, borrow (but don’t steal) a baseball pitch counter, put it in your pocket, and click it every time you catch yourself avoiding something out of fear. For me, it was an unlucky 13 times in a single day. That’s 13 opportunities that might have radically changed the trajectory of my mundane life.

So, going back to the micro fear examples earlier. What would it look like to take that list above and turn them around, to make something, anything happen?

* Look the homeless guy in the eye, tell him you can’t give him money (or maybe you can – your choice), but ask him his name
* Tap the line cutter on the shoulder and smile while you say “sorry, you may not have noticed, but the line starts over there.”
* Maintain eye contact with the object of your desire and smile. If they smile back, say hello and introduce yourself. If not, smile to yourself for taking a risk and realizing how easy it was.
* At the networking event, walk up to a group and say “I am determined to make new friends tonight and I bet you are just the kind of people who make good friends.”
* Wander into the middle of the dance floor, close your eyes and focus on what you feel in your body, not what others think. Dance.
* Overhearing an interesting conversation, saying “I couldn’t help overhearing, but are you talking about blah blah?”

I’ve done all these things, especially in the last 9 months or so.

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Have you taken the 30 Day Rejection Therapy Challenge? Read the rules and find out how you can overcome fear of rejection. It’s free.

Spetznaz is an umbrella term for Russian “special purpose” forces. These elite soldiers are sinewy skilled killing machines.

The Spetznaz most lethal weapon is not an automatic assault rifle but a 10 inch shovel, which is used to deflect bullets, confuse the enemy (by throwing dirt in the face), and decapitate him at the shoulders.

In the final stages of Spetznaz training, each soldier is locked in a room with only his shovel and a mad dog. Only one leaves the room alive.

The reason for this grim test is to harden the soldiers nerves.

Humans in threatening situations naturally become “overly stressed”. With adrenaline spiking, the heart rate rises to the point where basic motor coordination breaks down.

The soldier, faced in this life and death situation, must overcome the dizzyingly high state of arousal enough to avoid having his throat ripped out by the canine’s fangs.

It’s an experience no XBox 360 game could simulate. Nothing less than life and death will do. The soldier faces the threat head on, and they die or they don’t. They are soldiers. They face the fear and they fight. That’s their job. It’s their life.

In Rejection Therapy, you also must fight the fear. Either you overcome your fear of rejection or the fangs of fear will tear you apart.

It’s your life. Live it.

The soldier, faced in this life and death situation, must overcome the dizzyingly high state of arousal enough to avoid having his throat ripped out by the canine’s fangs.

It’s an experience no XBox 360 game could simulate.

arousal

Yeah you gotta have a Wii for that shit.

“I couldn’t help overhearing, but are you talking about blah blah?”

lol i'm not going to this site but please continue pasting things from it

* Look the homeless guy in the eye, tell him you can’t give him money (or maybe you can – your choice), but ask him his name
---- Got called a sorry ass.

* Tap the line cutter on the shoulder and smile while you say “sorry, you may not have noticed, but the line starts over there.”
---- Got told that I think my time is worth more than others. On the way out, briefly considered that maybe she had been ahead of me.

* Maintain eye contact with the object of your desire and smile. If they smile back, say hello and introduce yourself. If not, smile to yourself for taking a risk and realizing how easy it was.
----- Made eye contact. Pretty easy to do when the motorcycle headlight never blinks.

* At the networking event, walk up to a group and say “I am determined to make new friends tonight and I bet you are just the kind of people who make good friends.”
----- Am now a partner in Amway. Because who doesn't buy all these things anyway?

* Wander into the middle of the dance floor, close your eyes and focus on what you feel in your body, not what others think. Dance.
----- Opened eyes and realized that I was tap dancing in the waitress station.

* Overhearing an interesting conversation, saying “I couldn’t help overhearing, but are you talking about blah blah?”
----- Got told "this is a private conversation" three times, shoved twice, and got suckered into some more Amway.

the Dance, period, one is just awesome

Rejection Therapy – The Game consists of only one main rule

You must be rejected by another person at least once, every single day.

Please notice the wording of the rule. It doesn’t say you must attempt or try to be rejected. The rule is you MUST be rejected by another human being. In this game, rejection is success.

No other outcome will meet the requirement of Rejection Therapy.

To put yourself in a situation where rejection is likely, but to your surprise your request is granted, is not a successful outcome. Why? Because you weren’t rejected. You didn’t ask for too much.

At the networking event, walk up to a group and say “I am determined to make new friends tonight and I bet you are just the kind of people who make good friends.”

Bleurgh.

I do the dancing one though, and the eye contact one I should try.