The Hidden Obvious Guide to Making It in Hollywood: Secret #3
Handling Rejection.
I think this is going to be the shortest in this series, because all I want to do is provide an introduction to someone else’s post.
Rejection is something that everyone faces in their life. People in creative fields must face it more often. People in highly coveted creative fields, even more so.
The best advice in the world is that you must face rejection with grace and dignity. In a rare glimpse into what it is like to fail on a large and public scale, one of the credited screenwriters of Conan the Barbarian recently wrote an eloquent personal description of what massive rejection feels like:
