About this episode

William Curb interviews Jia Jiang about overcoming rejection and developing easy discipline in the context of ADHD.

Hey Team! I've been on a bit of a break this summer, but I wanted to help celebrate International ADHD Awareness Day by dropping a new episode. We often think that achieving big things requires feeling miserable during the process. We buy into the myth that if a task isn't agonizing, it isn't worth the time we put into it. My guest today is Jia Jiang, an expert in rejection resilience, a Duke MBA graduate, and the founder of Wuju Learning. After stepping away from a stable corporate career at Dell and LinkedIn to launch a tech startup, Jia realized his deepest bottleneck wasn't a lack of talent, but a profound fear of rejection. Fueled with this insight, he launched 100 Days of Rejection Therapy and filmed himself requesting absurd things from strangers daily. And this is actually when I first came across Jia 11 years ago, so it was quite the treat to get to talk with him and learn about his new book, Easy Discipline. Jia brings a unique lens to the table because he's battled his own severe, late-understood ADHD and procrastination loops since growing up in Beijing when ADHD just wasn't considered a thing. In this episode, we talk about shifting away from transactional…

People in this episode

Host: William Curb

Guest: Jia Jiang

Topics covered

• ADHD
• discipline
• rejection resilience
• procrastination
• self-sabotage
• mindset

Keywords

• ADHD
• discipline
• rejection therapy
• procrastination
• mindset
• self-sabotage
• Jia Jiang

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wuju Learning, Dell, LinkedIn

Books & works: Easy Discipline

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