Bibliograph

The rejection that changed my life, 25 powerful women on being let down, turning it around, and burning it up at work, Jessica Bacal

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The rejection that changed my life, 25 powerful women on being let down, turning it around, and burning it up at work, Jessica Bacal

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rejection that changed my life

Oclc number

1159603742

Responsibility statement

Jessica Bacal

Sub title

25 powerful women on being let down, turning it around, and burning it up at work

Summary

"Rejections don't go on your résumé, but they are part of every successful person's career. All of us will apply for jobs that we don't get and have ambitions that aren't fulfilled, because that is part of being a working person, part of pushing oneself to the next step professionally. While everyone deserves feel-better stories, women are more likely to ruminate, more likely to overthink rejection until it becomes even more painful--a situation that the women in this collection are determined to change, and in so doing, normalize rejection and encourage others to talk about it. Empowering and full of heart, the stories in this collection are diverse in every sense, by top women from many cultural backgrounds and in a wide variety of fields; many of their hard-earned lessons are universal. There are stories from engineers, entrepreneurs, activists, comedians, professors, lawyers, chefs, and more on how they coped with rejection and even experienced it as a catalyst for their own personal professional growth. Powerful, motivating, and endlessly quotable and shareable, The Rejection That Changed My Life will become the go-to book for women at any stage of their career learning to navigate the workforce"--, Back cover"Features interviews with twenty-five women, including Keri Smith, Angela Duckworth, and Roz Chast, about triumphing over career setbacks and challenges. Jessica Bacal, the author of Mistakes I Made at Work, is a well-respected career-development professional at Smith College"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Rejection is data -- Creativity is on the other side -- Rejection is a muscle -- Take a new path -- Rejection workbook : Craft a reminder that you are complex ; Take a shortcut to change your perspective ; Practice self-compassion ; Practice growth mindset through sketching "photos" you didn't take ; Prefect on purpose ; Get ten "nos" ; Imagine you are being interviewed for this book

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