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We all face rejection. No matter how much you try to avoid it, avoiding rejection is an impossibility. All of the leaders of our generation and past generations faced rejection. I won’t be shocked if the leaders of future generations face their fair share of rejection as well.

Facing rejection puts you one step closer to becoming successful. The thought of facing rejection is the biggest hurdle we face towards becoming successful. Once we get through that hurdle, most of the journey is easy sailing.

The other big hurdle is how we react towards getting rejected. Some people give up upon being rejected while someone else felt like pursuing over 300 people to get the finances to create Walt Disney World.

We all have to face rejection. There is no point in hiding from a force that we cannot hide from. The best way to embrace this force is to accept that there will be moments of rejection. However, those moments of rejection bring you closer to success as long as you stick with your dreams. Getting rejected 150 times meant Walt Disney was less than 200 rejections away from the big yes that created an enterprise.

Statistics are there, but they can easily get changed. A blogger who is getting 0 visitors a day can end up getting over 100,000 daily visitors at some point in his career. The person who consistently gains 20 followers every day can suddenly end up gaining 300 followers every day.

The Denver Broncos were favored by a landslide to win the Super Bowl against the Seahawks. That did not happen, and the Broncos lost by a long shot. We commonly think that statistics define the best. However, statistics change. We need to focus more on the intangibles to see who the leaders are.

The intangibles are the persistence, consistency, the desire to be successful, and other traits of well-known leaders. While the statistics say hopeless, the intangibles say success story. When the Patriots chose Tom Brady in the 6th round of the draft, he was a back-up quarterback for his college and ran at pedestrian speeds. No one had any idea what the Patriots saw in Brady. Tom Brady ended up becoming one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the sport. The New England Patriots were not looking at the statistics. They were looking at the intangibles.

Statistics are not enough. Some of the people with good statistics don’t want to put in the long hours to get better. The people who have good intangibles are the ones who catch up to the statistic leaders. The intangibles allow some bloggers to go from 0 visitors to 100,000 daily visitors.

Statistics are important, but the intangibles are more important.

How We Need To Face Rejection

Intangibles Define Us, Not Statistics