OMG, what a dumb idea!
How about receiving acceptance emails? Am I the only one to think that positive reinforcement is a way better tool? How would it possibly help you to tune yourself to a negative outcome on daily basis?!
How about receiving acceptance emails? Am I the only one to think that positive reinforcement is a way better tool? How would it possibly help you to tune yourself to a negative outcome on daily basis?!
You calling this a dumb idea is a perfect example, so I'm sure the creators here thank you for that!
Success often requires overcoming adversity. Overcoming failure and rejection.
Some will let fear of failure cripple their ability to get things done - not starting projects because they fear they'll fail, or not finishing projects because they've been discouraged by failures along the way.
Others will adopt failure as their constant companion and friend - a sign that they're attempting things difficult enough to be worth doing, things difficult enough to be educational, things that still push their boundaries. Perhaps even a positive thing in it's own right - if failure is how you learn, if constant and repeated failure to disprove is how you science, then just how negative a thing is failure, exactly? Just how negative is a fake rejection letter you signed yourself up for?
There's a place for positive reinforcement, but there's a place for conditioning as well, for those wishing to move the needle.
The Stoic fathers thought it was a good idea.
Please don't do this on Show HNs :)
(Not the being critical part, just the part I quoted)