"When I crashed and burned with my second startup at twenty-eight, watching eighteen months of work and a substantial amount of investor money evaporate, I thought my career was over. The shame was crushing. I isolated myself from friends, convinced I was a fraud who had no business giving anyone advice about anything. But here's what I've learned: sometimes you can do everything right and still fail."
"But here's what we miss: rejection isn't always about you or your work's potential. It's about timing, personal preferences, market trends, and a hundred other factors that have nothing to do with whether your idea has merit. Those publishers probably weren't saying Harry Potter was bad."
A person experienced a devastating startup failure at twenty-eight, losing eighteen months of work and investor funds, and reacted with shame, isolation, and self-doubt. Doing everything 'right' can still produce failure. Success often belongs not to those with greater talent but to those who persist when others quit. Rejection frequently reflects timing, individual preferences, market conditions, and other external factors rather than a lack of merit. Many creators give up after a few rejections, forfeiting potential breakthroughs. Continuing to submit work and persevere can enable discoveries that reshape countless lives.
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