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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.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries

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The Mindset Shift that Will Change Your Whole College Experience

If you want to see the kind of college success that every college girl hopes for, you have to learn this mindset shift that will change your whole college experience. If you’re not familiar with my story, I was a first-generation college student.

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The Secret to Student Success | Arel Moodie | TEDxYouth@ClintonSquare

Arel Moodie delivers a fascinating talk on one of the most important life lessons he's learned: You don't have to be the smartest or most skilled to become successful. The secret, effort.

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Focusing

The classic guide to a powerful technique that can increase your mindfulness and lead to personal transformation. The focusing technique consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body.

Eugene T. Gendlin

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Rejection Makes You a Better Artist - Sujata Day

With her infectious personality and unique sense of humor, Pittsburgh native Sujata Day has established herself as a performer, creator, writer, and director. She regularly performs in Upright Citizen Brigade’s hit Asian AF show.

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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential (Updated Edition)

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea—the power of our mindset.

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Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.

Rebecca A. Alexander, Sascha Alper

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About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times

Based on the historic New York Times series, About Us features intimate, firsthand accounts on what it means, and how it feels, to live with a disability.

Peter Catapano (editor), Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (editor), Andrew Solomon (foreword)

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