Fair play for applying in the first place. For giving it a go and keeping at it. I often can't even get past the voice in my head telling me its all not worth the effort in the first place... So make sure you hold on to whatever confidence is getting you going on those applications/submissions and those next few lines of the draft your working on.
Thank you for writing this. I also had a 'no' this week on what would have been an incredible opportunity and similarly spiraled. This was helpful perspective!
Nodding along to all of this. Intellectually we get it - it's a highlights reel, it's not 'real' necessarily, it's not the same as the messy complexity of another human. Emotionally, we're being presented with shiny, glossy, productive versions of other people all the time, and of course it gets to us, and perhaps the answer is not to be beating ourselves up for being human and emotional and not approaching our ten-minute-scrolls with rigorous intellectual analysis. x
Fair play for applying in the first place. For giving it a go and keeping at it. I often can't even get past the voice in my head telling me its all not worth the effort in the first place... So make sure you hold on to whatever confidence is getting you going on those applications/submissions and those next few lines of the draft your working on.
Thank you for writing this. I also had a 'no' this week on what would have been an incredible opportunity and similarly spiraled. This was helpful perspective!
Nodding along to all of this. Intellectually we get it - it's a highlights reel, it's not 'real' necessarily, it's not the same as the messy complexity of another human. Emotionally, we're being presented with shiny, glossy, productive versions of other people all the time, and of course it gets to us, and perhaps the answer is not to be beating ourselves up for being human and emotional and not approaching our ten-minute-scrolls with rigorous intellectual analysis. x