J. K. Rowling received twelve rejections before the first Harry Potter book was published.
This is expected in the publishing industry. even the best manuscripts get a lot rejections. this is because publishing houses are inundated with manuscripts, so they must reject most of them. If anything, 12 rejections is above average. Most aspiring authors get rejected 100%.
I think it comes down to talent. with talent, there is some hope despite a lot rejections, but without talent, you're doomed to be rejected 100% of the time ,so persistence is much less effective for those people.
> because publishing houses are inundated with manuscripts, so they must reject most of them
There is also hidden specialisation. As the rejectee, it's unclear whether you're being rejected because you're bad or because you're a bad fit for the rejector. Over-indexing to one or the other can lead to underperseverence or delusional dedication.
Failure has to be a recoverable state for this to be true. And whether it is depends both on the circumstances of your failure and on your support network.
E.g. breaking you leg on a popular ski slope is recoverable, breaking your leg in a solo exbidition on the North Pole is not, simply because in one place you have a support network and in the other you haven't.
Similarily having your project fail as the kid of rich parents is recoverable, having your project fail as the kid of poor ones might not be. Like the exhibition on the north pole this comes down to many things. A rich kid might have gotten their house as a gift/inheritance from their parent, if they lose it to cover their debt that is bad, but they didn't work their whole life to buy it. If a poor person fails there might not be such property to cover debts.
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This is expected in the publishing industry. even the best manuscripts get a lot rejections. this is because publishing houses are inundated with manuscripts, so they must reject most of them. If anything, 12 rejections is above average. Most aspiring authors get rejected 100%.
I think it comes down to talent. with talent, there is some hope despite a lot rejections, but without talent, you're doomed to be rejected 100% of the time ,so persistence is much less effective for those people.
There is also hidden specialisation. As the rejectee, it's unclear whether you're being rejected because you're bad or because you're a bad fit for the rejector. Over-indexing to one or the other can lead to underperseverence or delusional dedication.
Aka family/spouse with enough wealth to catch you when you fall.
Surely its mindset and perseverance, seeing failure as something you can't stop, but you can learn from
E.g. breaking you leg on a popular ski slope is recoverable, breaking your leg in a solo exbidition on the North Pole is not, simply because in one place you have a support network and in the other you haven't.
Similarily having your project fail as the kid of rich parents is recoverable, having your project fail as the kid of poor ones might not be. Like the exhibition on the north pole this comes down to many things. A rich kid might have gotten their house as a gift/inheritance from their parent, if they lose it to cover their debt that is bad, but they didn't work their whole life to buy it. If a poor person fails there might not be such property to cover debts.