Eyes filled with dreams, and the inbox with rejections.

Michael Scott from the Office (2005-2013)

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I have been working on creating opportunities for myself, and those around me. There's a lot of rejection mails in my inbox right now. Even more are the mails that never got any responses. As an entrepreneur it is expected of you to learn something new every day. It's a rigorous practice that needs consistency, but pays in the long run. So, today I learned how to twerk, as a backup. In case my startup does not work out.

I always say, life as an entrepreneur is like swiping through Tinder.

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Even some of my biggest accomplishments are actually rejections. Like being left on seen by Mr. Prashant Kishor, the Indian political strategist. I am obviously kidding. Leaving me on seen was one of HIS biggest accomplishments.

But do you know what is the best thing about rejections? They help you realize that the whole world does not revolve around you. Initially, every rejection feels like the astral form scene from Dr. Strange. It feels so light! The ego leaving your body, one rejection at a time.

Every day is a new rejection. But every day is also a new iteration. I have to be agile, be lean. Adapt. Work on myself, every second of every minute of every day.

Everyday I build myself, measure, evaluate my actions and their consequences, learn from it. Ever evolving, ever learning, I gather compounding. One day I'll probably be unstoppable. It's just a matter of time. So will be you! If a good-looking 20 year-old entrepreneur with balls of steel can try to emerge out of rejections, so can you!

This is not a motivational newsletter. No sir. At least not for you. This is a feel-good activity for my own self. You learning stuff from my documentation of this journey through hell is a by-product. A solid by-product powered by collaboration, curiosity, and failures. Lots of failures between all of us. But that should not stop us from going out and trying different things. Things that you do will provide value to other people. You just don’t realize it.

Jack Butcher once said, “If one person can benefit from what you do, many can.” If your art page on Instagram makes someone pick up a brush and paint their hearts out, you’re far away from being a failed artist. If your workout inspires someone to lift weights, you’re changing someone’s life! If something that YOU created, nudges someone to do something, don’t mind the rejections. For someone accepted a part of you into their lives to change it for the better. And I think that is beautiful.

If someone reading this newsletter decides to do something they’re good at, or want to improve at, I think I will no longer be Rejection Rutik. I will have found my salvation, my Nirvana. This would only be possible through failing repeatedly, collaboratively, and helping pick each other up.

Nirvana is only real when shared!

Biiiig hugs,

Frodo Mercury

Lord of the strings.