Woman is rejected from a job, but manager adds an extra line to the basic template that changed everything: ‘He replied in two days with two names. one of them went nowhere. the other one was a hiring manager at a company that had not posted anything yet’

We should cultivate the art of accepting and integrating criticismSome forms of criticism arrive at the perfect moment, with the perfect combination of words, and they finally click; something within us changes. We finally understand something we've been unknowingly struggling with for so long, and we can (finally) let it go.It's a mix of the messenger's sensitivity and tact in saying something like that, and our own willingness to listen at that given moment. When those stars align, we are ready to make a change.They say rejection is God's protection; to me, it isn't necessary to be that idealistic. We can definitely take rejection as a way to learn something new and improve ourselves as people, and that attitude might actually lead us somewhere.There are things about our personalities that we don't notice until somebody else points them out. We tend to think everything we do is normal, but it might be useful to hear that we might have a tendency to be too inflexible, or that we succumb under stress.What I'm trying to say is that we can't improve those things if we never know about them, and that in corporate it's very difficult to receive earnest feedback that can actually boost…

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