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How persistent rejection shapes self-perception

I have been submitting to journals for three years and getting form rejections and I am starting to think my work is fundamentally broken

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated external rejection can become internalized as evidence of fundamental inadequacy rather than market circumstance.

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