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Embarrassingly this took 103 days to actually complete so I am realizing I might have some commitment and accountability problems, hence I built triedtrial.app but I'm still deciding my next experiment and looking for people to join.

As for rejection therapy specifically, I got some pretty cool things from it, including

• my role at Lumeria (YC S26) a month after high school

• first book signed by the author

• some bucket list items fulfilled: on a film set, bouldering in a privately booked venue, won a hackathon

Some things I didn't get

• 20+ frat parties

• 0/3 club applications at UC Berkeley, including the dragon boat team I spent 12+ hours doing interviews/socials/tryouts for. Yes that was the only rejection I cried about.

• 100+ and counting talking to people on the street for some Lumeria field work

Some takeaways

• embarassing yourself is surviable and worth doing in the pursuit of making friends

• there are so many opportunities that I need to start figuring out what actually matters to me

• most rejections are not personal

My dragon boat rejection still feels like getting out of a situationship so I really think rejection therapy is worth doing after a breakup, bad denial, or dry spell. Let me know how your's goes.