The Zen of Failure sounds like the state that occurs when I’m pitching projects. There’s a certain flow state that comes from copying and pasting pitch documents into various forms and formats to send to people who may or may not respond, and might not even look at them. It creates a certain feeling of acceptance that this action probably will not matter, but it must be taken or it definitely won’t matter. It’s related to the way rejection loses its sting when it happens frequently. Just pitching to literary agents, I’ve been rejected or ignored over 100 times now. Rejection isn’t even really a feeling anymore, it’s just a thing that happens which indicates I have to keep pitching things.
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does it make me a horrible employe that i know exactly what she´s talking about? i work as a mobile caretaker for the old+needy, and while most customers are ok or even downright sweet, there´s always the occassional a#hole from hell……and while i can´t ask to be assigned someone else, they do. so the secret is to be incompetent enough that they request someone else, but not so much that you get in trouble with the bosses. its a fine balance, but totally worth it!
I think anyone who has had a job for long enough finds an occasion to play failure chicken so they can avoid a terrible assignment haha.
She’s hyped up for it. Lt’s do this Bridget!!!