Rejection Therapy (2011)
Similar to what the famous psychologist Albert Ellis did:<p>&quot;As an adolescent, Albert was extremely shy around ladies. At age 19, he started showing signs of thinking like a cognitive-behavioral therapist by forcing himself to talk to about 100 women in the Bronx Botanical Gardens within a period of one month. This helped him get rid of his fear of rejection by women.&quot;[1]<p>&quot;He found 130 women sitting alone that month on park benches. He sat next to all of them, whereupon 30 got up and walked away. He spoke to the remaining 100 — for the first time in his life — about the birds and the bees, the flowers, books, whatever came to mind.<p>Al later said, &quot;If Fred Skinner, who was then teaching at Indiana University, had known about my exploits, he would have thought I would have got extinguished, because of the 100 women I made one date — and she didn&#x27;t show up!<p>&quot;But I prepared myself philosophically, even then, by seeing that nobody took out a stiletto and cut my balls off, nobody vomited and ran away, nobody called the cops. I had 100 pleasant conversations and with the second 100 I got good and made a few dates.&quot; [2]<p>&quot;Nobody took out a stiletto and cut my balls off&quot; -- I&#x27;ve always loved that expression.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;totallyhistory.com&#x2F;albert-ellis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;totallyhistory.com&#x2F;albert-ellis&#x2F;</a>
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