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‘I Allow Myself a Mini-Wallow’: How to Handle Rejection in the Arts

By Abby Young-Powell — 2018

No matter how talented you are, if you work in the creative arts, you’ll likely experience rejection—whether it’s losing a job, or getting your ideas, art, funding applications, or pitches turned down.

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Challenging the Anti-Shame Zeitgeist

Despite a culture organizing to oppose shaming, it remains inevitable. But it doesn’t have to ruin lives.

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Joseph Burgo
2013
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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common

In Rising Strong (public library), Brown builds upon her earlier work on vulnerability to examine the character qualities, emotional patterns, and habits of mind that enable people to transcend the catastrophes of life, from personal heartbreak to professional collapse, and emerge not only unbroken...

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Maria Popova
2015
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“Speak Your Truth. Follow Your Wild Heart”: How Brené Brown Learned to Cope with Cruelty Online

The best way to describe the modern social media struggle comes from my fifth-generation Texan upbringing: it’s a s*** show. I always thought I’d reach a point in my life and my career where social media got easier and cruel comments didn’t bother me.

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Brené Brown
2019
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