To take rejection personally or not? That is the question that Thomas Fellows seeks to answer in Alone at the Lunch Table: How to Rise from Rejection.
We've all been rejected before whether it be in a relationship, job, admission to a school, or certain club or institution. This book encourages you to not only grow from rejection, but ask for it-and, at times, seek it out.
Through Fellows' use of Biblical characters such as Joseph, popular music from Justin Bieber, BTS, Tears for Fears, movies such as Mean Girls, The Social Network, Wolf of Wall Street and Mud, historical figures such as Geroge Marshall, Robert E. Lee, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, and the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Fellows encourages the reader to be thankful for rejection because, invariably, the times where we have grown most have been the times where we have been rejected.
If you purchase this book, be expecting original quotes such as the one below:
Be careful when you look down on someone, thinking that they are behind you. I've found that people who appear in your rearview mirror can enter your blind spot sooner than you think, and, while you can't see them anymore and think that they are now in your blind spot, you'll be remiss to realizing that the positions have switched; you're now in their blind spot because they're ahead of you. They'll stay ahead of you because, unlike you, they're not looking down on anyone and are instead, zooming ahead.
