Comments on: Dealing with Silence and Rejection http://earlnewton.com/2009/06/29/dealing-with-silence-and-rejection/ Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:59:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Earl Newton http://earlnewton.com/2009/06/29/dealing-with-silence-and-rejection/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Earl Newton Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:07 +0000 http://earlnewton.com/?p=53#comment-40 @Doc: I think you need to be realistic about your capabilities, but you also can't let the internal critic talk you out of trying. Talent is like a winning lottery ticket: you don't REALLY know you had it until it's too late to do something different. @Doc: I think you need to be realistic about your capabilities, but you also can’t let the internal critic talk you out of trying. Talent is like a winning lottery ticket: you don’t REALLY know you had it until it’s too late to do something different.

]]> By: Doc Waller http://earlnewton.com/2009/06/29/dealing-with-silence-and-rejection/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Doc Waller Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:40:52 +0000 http://earlnewton.com/?p=53#comment-37 "Your job is to be talented at the right place, at the right time." Which most people haven't reached being talented yet. Also, I think to many people put their energies into being "opportunity collectors" rather than "opportunity creators." Both of which, however, I feel are neccessary. “Your job is to be talented at the right place, at the right time.”

Which most people haven’t reached being talented yet. Also, I think to many people put their energies into being “opportunity collectors” rather than “opportunity creators.” Both of which, however, I feel are neccessary.

]]> By: Aaron Silverman http://earlnewton.com/2009/06/29/dealing-with-silence-and-rejection/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Aaron Silverman Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:35:55 +0000 http://earlnewton.com/?p=53#comment-35 "Plumbers don’t complain when they have to deal with crap; why should you?" Bad analogy -- plumbers get paid every time they deal with crap! (Says the guy who is in the process of fixing both toilets in his own house. . .) “Plumbers don’t complain when they have to deal with crap; why should you?”

Bad analogy — plumbers get paid every time they deal with crap! (Says the guy who is in the process of fixing both toilets in his own house. . .)

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