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Erik: How do you deal with rejection?
Jason: I think it depends on the thing that I am being told that I can't do or that's
not going my way. I tend to deal with rejection fairly well. I'm an even-keeled guy though
too, I'm very like, "Okay, you don't wanna do that? Alright, then we'll work it out."
My mother also says another thing about me, which is that, "Jason always figures out a
way to get the thing he wants." And she talks about this one moment in college, the one
thing she told me to not do in college was to not tell her right before I graduate that
I'm short credits, and I was not bad -- I wasn't a bad student. I'm not a bad person.
I did my studies. I, you know, I was on the ball, but lo and behold, in the last semester
of college I realized that I was gonna be short a credit, so my mother's greatest fear
came true and I told her I was gonna be short a credit, but I didn't tell her this without
a solution, and the solution was that I was gonna go to one of my professors who I had
done -- had taken many classes with, done many independent studies with, and I was gonna
get him to give me a couple of credits for doing this other project that was sort of
extra-curricular and so what she always says about me that in that I always find a way,
kind of around the obstacle. I suppose it's true and I like that about myself, but she
says it in a negative way, so there was no problem with me finding that extra credit,
it just wasn't the normal course of how everybody else graduated. And so dealing with rejection,
I think I sort of have the same approach in that -- "that didn't work out that way, there's
probably another way that I'll be able to get this or deal with it." And it's not always
about getting or achieving the thing that you wanted because sometimes rejection is
-- that's it. It's -- There is no other way around it. But I think that -- I think that
the way around that is just realizing that you're not gonna have that thing and moving
on to the next thing.