What Do You Do With a Smoking Crater?
Nothing hurts like a smack-down. You’ve given your best to an audience, to the court, to your company, to your teenage kid and in response, you get smoked.
As humans, we love to be loved, but it’s not always reciprocated. Often you reach out in peace, and in response, you get nuked. Now between you and your listener is a smoking crater.
What do you do?
Before anything else, stop and take a very deep breath. Recognize that you have just experienced not one, but two, highly emotional events: the other party’s rejection and your response to it. Don’t dismiss the importance of this factor.
You dare not move forward until you deal with your response to the rejection. So long as you are angry or hurt, you won’t handle this well. There is no chance of recovery without at least one adult in the room.
Every case will be different, and what follows is necessarily generic. But these principles apply in most cases:
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