If you aren’t getting rejected, your goals aren’t ambitious enough (2010)

I quite enjoyed the first comment:<p>&quot;People that reject me are doing me a favor.<p>They&#x27;re not rejecting me or my product. They&#x27;re rejecting the combination of me and them together.<p>They&#x27;re telling me we would have a bad relationship. And they&#x27;re probably right.&quot;

Is there an optimal rejection rate? How would you calculate such a thing?

Or just maybe - your goals are exactly as ambitious as you want them to be, and perfectly in line with your abilities.

This made my day. Got rejected twice yesterday by funding leads I that looked promising. One told me, the best I can do for you is be brutally honest and spent almost an hour dissecting my business to shreds. The other said &quot;I think you are a great guy and I am sure it will turns out well&quot; with a chuckle, but told the guy who gave me the brutal feed back how effed up my plan was.

Ted talk: Surprising Lessons From 100 Days of Rejection (<a href="http://youtu.be/ZFWyseydTkQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZFWyseydTkQ</a>)

Well I guess if we can transpose this maxim to dating, my goals are mightily ambitious !

Who rejected you today ?