Perspectives | How Do I Deal With Rejection?

Answers from Yeats, Diogenes and Chuang Tzu

As I sit down to type, I'm adjacent to the room where I was just told by my three year old son to 'go away' because 'it's Mummy's turn' to put him to bed. Sometimes, I know, a boy just needs his Mummy, but my goodness rejection can sting.

It stings particularly hard this week. After sending off a flurry of job applications in the past month, I'm dodging…