Win or Learn: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success

by Harlan Cohen

Overview

What would life be like if every risk you took ended in success?

In Win or Learn, rejection expert and New York Times bestselling author Harlan Cohen lays the framework for identifying your wants, taking the risks necessary to pursue them, and finding success no matter the outcome.

This step-by-step risk-taking experiment will guide you on a journey to understand your worth and fight for your goals without the fear of rejection—because rejection is a universal truth but not a final destination.

Cohen's revolutionary perspective on risk-taking and rejection will help you realize your dreams, understand your limits, and find victory in every risk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728223469
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Series:	Ignite Reads
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	1,057,244
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

HARLAN COHEN is The New York Times bestselling author of The Naked Roommate series and six other titles. His books have sold over 1 million copies in print in multiple languages. Harlan is a speaker who helps thousands of students, parents, educators, and professionals every year. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Before College TV.

Editorial Reviews

12/07/2020

Advice columnist Cohen (The Naked Roommate) lays out strategies for turning negative outcomes into positive ones in this refreshing guide. In five steps—explore what one wants, get comfortable with the uncomfortable, set a direction and have patience, “tell your story as if it has already happened,” and reflect—Cohen helps readers articulate goals and develop ways to overcome road bumps. Cohen explains that the “universal rejection truth” means that no matter how one intends an action, “not everyone and everything will always respond to you the way you want.” He explains common reasons people experience rejection (such as “raw rejection,” due to an innate quality or character trait, and “rejection by circumstance,” due to factors independent of one’s makeup), provides checklists and prompts for readers to uncover ambitions, recommends finding “people and places” who will champion one’s goals, and using mentors and aspirational scripts (including mad-lib style exercises) to work toward those goals. Throughout, he shares examples of his rules in action, such as an underprivileged woman who found it difficult to afford college, but found “being poor can be great” after she met others who empathized and could help. Any self-help reader feeling stuck will find useful tips here. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Writing in the forthright style of a self-help book, seven-time author Cohen (The Naked Roommate, 2017) pulls no punches." — Booklist

"Advice columnist Cohen (The Naked Roommate) lays out strategies for turning negative outcomes into positive ones in this refreshing guide.... Any self-help reader feeling stuck will find useful tips here." — Publishers Weekly

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