Comment by ParanoidAgnostic on 03/02/2014 at 23:04 UTC

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View submission: XKCD 1325: Rejection

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You know who else can't tell the difference between 'guys with confidence' and 'assholes'?

Assholes

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Comment by [deleted] at 04/02/2014 at 19:25 UTC

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I was kind of in that camp once. It's a perfectly understandable defense mechanism to being rejected, but once you develop your own personality and have enough of a mixture of success and failure that you don't place too much stock in any one prospect, you kind of start to dig yourself out of that hole.