Jeff Kaplan: belief

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…What was that decision? Do you remember that decision? What was that like to just take that part of your life and just put it in a dumpster? Yeah. It was—I think it was necessary. It was necessary. This is like rationalizing it after the fact, you know, which is easy to do. You know? But at the time, I think I was so broken and so defeated with failure that I needed the moment. It was like throwing in the towel for a boxer, you know? It’s that moment of like, “I’m not gonna win this fight, and you need to move on from it.” And if there was any element of that sitting around, I’d be tempted to try again or bring it out of the drawer 10 years later. We should mention that you did give it a real try. You’ve mentioned receiving over 170 rejection letters in one year when submitting your stories. So there’s a lot of rejection. So it was a long chain of rejection. And then what was that like, the rejection?…

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