One of my greatest failures came right after I finished my master's degree. I was looking for a job internationally because I wanted to gain some international experience and I was growing tired of the work that I was doing where I was living in the US and it was a really important juncture in my life because I had up until then been impatient with my career progress and I've always been pushing the envelope trying to figure out what's the next step what's the,Next step and just taking any opportunity that came towards me that I thought might be remotely interesting for me or from my work and so it was a unique period of my life because I pushed myself to try to achieve something that was almost insurmountable and I needed to exercise persistence and patience and this was not something that came naturally to me, it was something that I had up until then just avoided completely if it didn't come easy to me. I just kind of went and did something. Else so I think this is was important because what it taught me essentially and this is after hundreds of job applications all over the world and spending an incredible amount of time not only reviewing different job applications or job descriptions, but even looking at different immigration policies for different countries trying to understand culturally socially language-wise, what would be a good fit trying to find areas of the world where I could see not only my career prospering. But finding different things that were interesting for me and that I had a passion for and that I cared about.And this was so incredibly important because during this period of intense kind of trial and error really during this intense period of rejection constant rejection every week getting a new reply from from a company saying no, we're not interested in you or we've given the position to someone else or on the very few occasions where I was interviewed and then coming in second third or fourth place in that interview throughout this time. I was getting offers from companies in the United States, that would have been. So easy for me to accept and they were offers that were enticing and interesting and and were engaging for me but I really wanted to push myself to go beyond just what was immediately available to me and try to find something that really mattered to me and so in doing that. I faced failure after failure after failure. I got rejected hundreds of times. I think the grand total of applications that I had put in was around 250, maybe even.Applications of those I got five ten interviews and this went on for the course of almost nine months so it was a I was facing rejection on such a regular basis that it no longer became scary and no longer became intimidating it just became part of the experience of looking for a job and it didn't rob me it didn't rob the joy of getting an interview it never robbed me of the joy of getting a job offer it just desensitized me. To the self-destructive behaviors that always come in the face of rejection that doubt that self-doubt of oh, I'm just not good enough, oh they don't they didn't think I was a good fit for this position today didn't think that I was a right for this position, you know, these these narratives that we craft around our experiences and especially our failures are so self-defeating and so we have to stop thinking about a failure as as being just a no failures can just be not yet and,Of all those applications 200 250 applications. I got 249 not yet, but then I got the one yes and that yes changed my life so as you're going through your professional careers as we all go through our professional careers, it's so important that we face failure head-on and we accept it for what it is not only a learning opportunity, but we find ways of moving past it and not letting it destroy our self-confidence, but just continuing just moving. Forward because the yes will always be joyful, but we can change our framework our frame of reference we can change t
