Today let’s be positive and talk about overcoming rejection.
Of course, there’s nothing positive about rejection itself: no matter how it’s done and who it involves, rejection is rejection. The strange thing is that different people get either more resistant or more sensitive to it, the more it happens. But whatever happens for you, it doesn’t have to mean the end.
The following is an extract from an old version of a book I’ve been writing, which has been edited slightly to apply to both men and women. (Buying said book when it’s published is highly recommended. 
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For the first time in a long time, I genuinely thought I was going insane. It wasn’t the first time that I thought I’d eventually end up in a padded cell or solitary confinement, but somehow it felt like it’s the closest I’ve been. (Mental note: watching almost four seasons of Oz back to back doesn’t seem to have helped matters.)
But if I have appeared to be insane, or at least mentally deranged this week, it’s because I’m angry with myself. I’m angry because I chose to go against my instinct – my gut feeling – and it backfired, because my instinct had been absolutely right.
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At some point, you’ll have heard someone dispense the age-old classic sentence solution:
Be yourself.
Basically I’m here to tell you that – in my humble opinion – “be yourself” is both the most empowering and arguably the biggest bunch of bullshit concept that ever existed.
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Before I started writing this post, I had to think of a convenient name, or acronym, for what I call “so-called positive people”, or “delusional negative people”. Wayne Dyer once used the acronym NLP for what he called a “no limit person”, and women have the convenient term “weirdo” or “freak” for anyone who has a personality they don’t agree with. (Men have all kinds of terms for certain kinds of women.) So to clarify who I am talking about, I have to have some kind of definitive term.
In the end, I opted for the slightly longer acronym SCPP, for so-called positive person. It doesn’t do as good a job as getting across what these people really are, but it’s a little easier on the eyes and ears than something like DNP (delusional negative person).
So-called positive people, or SCPPs, are poisonous and toxic people: they are actually negative people in disguise. They are basically people who go around labelling others as either “positive” or “negative”, and usually claim to be “positive” people – while saying and doing arguably “negative” things. They differ from vanilla negative people (and negative thinkers) in that they have an unhealthily high regard for themselves, and a generally low regard for at least certain kinds of other people, if not everybody else.
SCPPs share exactly the same traits as negative people, but from my experience with being around these kinds of people, here are some common traits that I’ve identified as being common among SCPPs.
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Today’s post is in response to a recent comment from Lara, about what happened after taking part in the LighterLife diet. I’m not sure if it ties in to the amount of spam I’ve been getting for my post on Food, Inc. (the movie), but it’s not something I’ve properly addressed. So here I go.
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