A friend once asked an insurance sales guy, “Don’t you feel disappointed by so many rejections, every single day?”
The guy said, “I have a 10% hit rate. So every time I call someone and get rejected, I count it towards the 9 rejections I need to get to the 10th guy who will buy.”
If you are a statistician, you might protest since each call is an independent event and a rejection doesn’t improve the odds of the next call being a success. 😊
But putting that aside, the guy has a point.
You can’t be successful unless you are willing to accept a certain number of failures. And the more audacious your goal, the worse the success-to-failure ratio will be.
One can’t just pick wins without accepting losses. You pick both. Or neither.
Your choice.
– Rajan