If you're someone who has really big dreams and you're determined to bring them to life, one of the things that it's so important not to forget

If you're someone who has really big dreams and you're determined to bring them to life, one of the things that it's so important not to forget and it's so hard to internalize is that when your dreams are big and wild and ambitious, it means that, by definition, there are gonna be points where you're gonna be feeling absolutely hopeless and asking yourself if you're maybe just delusional. There's gonna be times where your confidence and ambition and optimism is inevitably going to feel more difficult to tap into, because with bigger dreams come more rejections, and bigger dreams require a lot more perseverance. And one of the things that I always love going back to is this story of Jack Canfield, who's an author that wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul. He's written so many books, and he's sold over 600 million copies. But before his first book got published, he was rejected by 143, I think, publishers. And I always try and think of that in action and literally think, what does it take for someone to keep going after 120 rejections? After 140 rejections, like, what is it that tells you that you're not just wasting your time and that there's gonna be light at the end of the tunnel? There's one trait to try and develop. It's this. It's this type of almost delusional perseverance. It's this type of ability to lift yourself back up again and again every time you start to feel hopeless. Because Genuinely, rejections and obstacles often just mean that you need to knock on a few more doors. They don't mean that you're done. They don't mean that you failed, or that your plan is bad, or that you're bad at what you do, or that there's no hope for you. If you have a dream and you have a desire to bring something to life, most of the time is because you're capable of bringing that thing to life. You're not delusional. You might just need to knock on a few more doors. Sometimes it's 100 more. But you need to have the ability to convince yourself to do that in the first place when things start to feel hard and uncertain. Because it would have been so easy and valid for someone like Jack Canfield to stop trying after 100 rejections. It would have been so easy and valid and natural for him to just be like, okay, maybe I just don't have anything of value here. But he kept going. And at the other side of that was a career where he got to sell 600 million copies of the books that he wrote, all because he just convinced himself that if he kept going a little bit more and a little bit more, there was something for him at the end.