There are two ways to process this: The selection committee saw me, understood me, and then decided to reject me. or The selection committee didn't get what I had to offer. I wasn't rejected, my application was. It's not that I didn't get in, it's that ...
There are two ways to process this:
The selection committee saw me, understood me, and then decided to reject me.
or
The selection committee didn’t get what I had to offer. I wasn’t rejected, my application was. It’s not that I didn’t get in, it’s that they didn’t engage with the story I told.
We can always do a better job of finding the place where we might thrive. And a better job of living and telling the story that earns us a chance to get to that place.
But the chances that you were fully seen and rejected as a person are slight indeed.
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