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When Constant Creative Rejection Erodes Self-Belief

I submitted to thirty journals this year and got thirty rejections and I know I should see it as part of the process but honestly I am starting to think my work just is not good.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Systematic rejection challenges the fundamental assumption that effort and worth are causally linked.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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