Name: 【TED】Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection (What I learned from 100 days of rejection | Jia Jiang)
Uploaded: 2017-01-09T01:31:26.000Z
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Past simple

My first grade teacher had this brilliant idea.

She wanted us to experience receiving gifts

but also learning the virtue of complimenting each other.

So she had all of us come to the front of the classroom,

and she bought all of us gifts and stacked them in the corner.

"Why don't we just stand here and compliment each other?

and every time I heard someone's name called,

She was like, "Hey, would anyone say anything nice about these people?"

"No one? OK, why don't you go get your gift and sit down.

someone might say something nice about you."

you probably know I remember this really well.

But I don't know who felt worse that day.

She must have realized that she turned a team-building event

into a public roast for three six-year-olds.

You know, when you see people get roasted on TV,

and I would die to avoid being in that situation again --

I thought, wow, I know what I want to do now.

I will build the biggest company in the world,

I totally embraced this idea of conquering the world --

And I didn't make this up, I did write that letter.

This is also bad handwriting, but I did highlight some key words.

I was presented with the opportunity to come to the United States.

because that was where Bill Gates lived, right?

I thought that was the start of my entrepreneur journey.

I was actually a marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company.

Where is that 14-year-old who wrote that letter?

It's because every time I had a new idea,

every time I wanted to try something new,

I wanted to speak up in front of people in a group --

between the 14-year-old and the six-year-old.

And this fear even persisted after I started my own company.

I mean, I started my own company when I was 30 --

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【TED】Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection (What I learned from 100 days of rejection | Jia Jiang)

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