Giovanni Casanova
Master Don Juan
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2002
- Messages
- 5,550
- Reaction score
- 18
- Age
- 46
- Location
- Hiding in Penkitten's Linen Closet
Rejection is the root of tons of DJ problems. Striking up conversations, asking the girl out, going in for the kiss; pretty much everything from start to finish is all centered around the nagging possibility of rejection. There is one sure way to avoid rejection. It's a secret that a lot of AFCs are keeping all to themselves. It's called Not Even Trying. If you don't try, how can she reject you? Stay at home, play Final Fantasy MCLXXVI and never leave your house. Order pizza in every night so that you don't have to leave your home and possibly meet a girl who might reject you. Of course, that's if you WANT to be an AFC. If not, then it's time to realize that the biggest c*ckblocker out there is NOT rejection. The biggest c*ckblocker is YOUR FEAR of rejection. As the old saying goes, "Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway."
Dealing with women is like playing the stock market. Diversify, diversify, diversify. Some people will invest in only one company and if something bad happens, everything goes to hell. Other people will spread their portfolios over a wide range of stocks, funds, bonds, etc. and they can handle it if one or two doesn't go so great. But one thing is absolutely certain -- you won't make a dime in the stock market if you don't invest in it.
Anything worth anything requires some measure of risk. After Thomas Edison had hit a long period of stumbling blocks in his work, he was asked by someone if he had any results to show for all his work. Edison replied, "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." That should be the DJ attitude toward rejection.
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This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Dealing with women is like playing the stock market. Diversify, diversify, diversify. Some people will invest in only one company and if something bad happens, everything goes to hell. Other people will spread their portfolios over a wide range of stocks, funds, bonds, etc. and they can handle it if one or two doesn't go so great. But one thing is absolutely certain -- you won't make a dime in the stock market if you don't invest in it.
Anything worth anything requires some measure of risk. After Thomas Edison had hit a long period of stumbling blocks in his work, he was asked by someone if he had any results to show for all his work. Edison replied, "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." That should be the DJ attitude toward rejection.
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This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb