Resilience · Facing Down Rejection by McGuinness, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction

Learn to succeed in the face of adversity Why I had to write this book

Resilience

1. The guardians at the gate 2. The bigger the dream, the bigger the fear 3. Why do rejection and criticism hurt so much? 4. Make it something worth dying for 5. Why you need to build resilience 6. A simple but powerful way to develop resilience

Rejection

7. Rejection comes first 8. It’s normal 9. Get used to it 10. Roll with the punches 11. Wallowing is for pigs 12. Seven guaranteed ways to make rejection worse 13. Don’t think about the black box 14. Are you still in the game? 15. Is the prize worth the price? 16. You gotta laugh 17. Find your tribe 18. How to fix it next time 19. Play the numbers game 20. Narrow the odds 21. The day I tipped the scales in my favor 22. Make rejection irrelevant

Criticism

23. Dare to be a tall poppy 24. Is constructive criticism a myth? 25. Why we get criticism out of proportion 26. How to turn criticism into a crisis 27. Get some perspective 28. When to ignore the critics 29. Who do they think they are? 30. Your harshest critic 31. Why your Inner Critic is (potentially) your best friend 32. Eight ways to sharpen your critical thinking skills 33. Criteria i—What game are you playing? 34. Criteria ii—How good are you? 35. Your heart, your ego, and your reputation 36. When it gets personal 37. How to deal with incompetent criticism

Success

38. What does success look like to you? 39. How much do you want it? 40. Fear of success 41. No, you don’t need confidence 42. Building momentum 43. “You’re lucky” 44. How to handle praise 45. Be kind 46. Happily ever after? 47. The fascination of what’s difficult 48. Leap before you look

Now what?

49. Time to get started 50. Let me know how you get on…