Description: I’m John Hewitt. Back in the early 2000s I ran a site about writing called poewar.com, which actually was pretty popular. It was a resource for wri...
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As a worker with goals and ideas, I think the hardest thing to deal with in your career isn’t rejection, it’s mild enthusiasm. It’s what happens when you have an idea that you care about, and you bring it to other people, and they are just interested enough not to reject it. This has happened to me a few times in my career, and every time, it has been awful because you’re getting just enough encouragement to keep going, but you never get anywhere. You try harder. You adjust based on feedback. You look for b