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posicThe Facebook account "Men Manifesto" writes -- https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0qERLkDPkeba9iqDZ9TQZYPTvSC5hLQyCKktuXtnJkYPz2rYojo48FjDSF5MbN1JGl&id=61566835499795 :
If you knew you were 1000 rejections away from your dream, you'd get excited every time someone said no. Most people take rejection personally because they think it means they are not good enough.
In reality, rejection is usually proof that you're finally moving. You can't build a business, a personal brand, a relationship, or a new life without hearing "no" more times than your ego is comfortable with.
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I am not interested in being rejected because it is not my dream to get accepted. I never dreamed about "being published by the Annals of Mathematics" or "receiving the Fields medal" or "getting the Abel prize" or anything of the kind. When I was young, I wanted to prove difficult, beautiful, unpopular, unfashionable conjectures. As I grew older, I wanted to build deep, nontrivial, original, beautiful, unpopular, unfashionable theories.
In the final analysis, it is already enough that arXiv accepts my contributions, plus my publications in third-rate journals seem to pay for my salary under the Czech system. Эрика берет четыре копии. For the rest of them math. research journals out there, I have my peer reviewing boycott policy.
If you knew you were 1000 rejections away from your dream, you'd get excited every time someone said no. Most people take rejection personally because they think it means they are not good enough.
In reality, rejection is usually proof that you're finally moving. You can't build a business, a personal brand, a relationship, or a new life without hearing "no" more times than your ego is comfortable with.
***
I am not interested in being rejected because it is not my dream to get accepted. I never dreamed about "being published by the Annals of Mathematics" or "receiving the Fields medal" or "getting the Abel prize" or anything of the kind. When I was young, I wanted to prove difficult, beautiful, unpopular, unfashionable conjectures. As I grew older, I wanted to build deep, nontrivial, original, beautiful, unpopular, unfashionable theories.
In the final analysis, it is already enough that arXiv accepts my contributions, plus my publications in third-rate journals seem to pay for my salary under the Czech system. Эрика берет четыре копии. For the rest of them math. research journals out there, I have my peer reviewing boycott policy.
