[helpmehelpyou]

One big - 100% effort, balls to the wall, worked your ass off to get there - rejection will hold far more wisdom than a myriad of small insignificant rejections.

Why does sending Steve Jobs a single email and not receiving a response within in a day count as a noteworthy rejection? Seems hardly worth the effort and predetermined to count as a 'rejection'.

[Aetius]

People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replied back? I'm willing to bet it was 0. He just did it because he could. This is like me tracking down insert female celeb fantasy here's phone number and asking to talk to her. Pointless.

[mrzerga]

i believe there is some unconvencional value in the advice in the article for the intraverted dudes with low self esteem like me. Given any hypothetical opportunity people like me will evaluate the chances of the positive outcome of the opportunity lower than extravert dudes with higher esteem, and will reject the opportunity outright. While your advice suggests the default behavior, the advice above stresses the need to increase the number of attempts, irregardless of whether they are successful or not, and by the law of large numbers, this might result in higher probability of positive outome/s. Therefore, setting the goal of being rejected more often, might be more productive than waiting for the "right" opportunity to acieve the desired outcome.

p.s. usually I'm not that wordy.