KATHMANDU, JANUARY 30

In the Atlantic, a lab has a party to celebrate every 100 academic rejections they receive.

"When Vickers scrolled through the reel of rejections, she saw that Sarnecka, who is clearly a successful scientist, had gotten rejected for grants.

She saw that students on the verge of earning their Ph.D.s had been rebuffed for jobs. By the time she read through the 48 rejections already in the document, Vickers's rejection felt minor in comparison. What's more, those rows on the spreadsheet rejiggered her conception of success.

"I had always assumed that once you were successful, you would just continue to be successful eternally somehow," she told me.

Here was evidence that the lives of the successful could be littered with rejection.".....

There is also a nice bit about the value of a collective rejection sheet for a group "While rejection threatens our sense of belonging and heightens worries about how others see us, the rejection collection affirms that we belong. The irony, he noted, is that you're accepted to the group based on being rejected." - blog.wb.org/blogs

A version of this article appears in the print on January 31, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.