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Linking evolutionary causes to psychological causes is interesting if that is what you are studying. However, knowledge of such link does not actually give you emotional skills. Those skill require awareness and practice. It might be enhanced with a knowledge of links between evolutionary causes and psychology -- or knowledge of psychology for that matter -- but it is not necessary when actually exercising the skill.

It doesn't matter how much you know or don't know about rejection. What matters more is how you feel about rejection and your skills at working with emotions.

In any case, I suspect what you are doing in writing that response is exactly the process I had described: the use of intelligence and knowledge to avoid actually being aware of what you are feeling and underlying emotional currents.

Digging up the roots work. There's a little bit more to it than that. However, I don't have an interest in convincing you that it works. :-)