article_snippet.sent: It would take someone exceptionally optimistic and uncynical to propose an alternative thesis, and Jia Jiang is both of those.
article_snippet.sent: Born into a family of teachers, Jia Jiang was so determined to become an entrepreneur that, as a child in China, Jia Jiang dug a hole in the garden, intending to reach America by the shortest route.
article_snippet.sent: Jia Jiang eventually made the journey by conventional means, and found a good life there.
article_snippet.sent: But Jia Jiang wasn’t happy.
article_snippet.sent: Jia Jiang wanted to take risks, start Jia Jiang own company.
article_snippet.sent: The problem was Jia Jiang inevitably encountered rejection, mainly from potential backers for Jia Jiang project (another iPhone app no one could possibly need or want).
article_snippet.sent: So, having possibly read one self-help book too many, Jia Jiang decided to embark on Jia Jiang own rejection-proofing quest.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of avoiding rejection, Jia Jiang would spend 100 days deliberately seeking out situations in which Jia Jiang was likely to be rejected, film situations in which he was likely to be rejected and put situations in which he was likely to be rejected up on Jia Jiang blog.
article_snippet.sent: All of which seemed to Jia Jiang, at first glance, rather artificial.
article_snippet.sent: But Jia Jiang isn’t a humorous writer.
article_snippet.sent: Jia Jiang may adopt a light-hearted tone, but his own rejection-proofing quest was deadly serious.
article_snippet.sent: Watching the video later, Jia Jiang said Jia Jiang looked like the man in Munch’s The Scream.
article_snippet.sent: But as Jia Jiang continued his own rejection-proofing quest, Jia realised there were ways and ways of asking.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jia Jiang, with Jia Jiang exceptional optimism, proposes an alternative thesis .
  