Design Your Own Rejection Month

Sophie ran her experiment for thirty days — now you design seven days of your own, building from low-stakes to genuinely uncomfortable.

Your Raw Material

Write three areas of your life where fear of judgement holds you back — be specific, not generic.

Keep or Cut

From those three, choose the one fear worth confronting this week — and defend why you are cutting the other two.

Worth confronting

Setting aside (and why)

The Core Design Decision

State in one sentence exactly what you will ask, attempt, or do to confront that fear — concrete enough that someone else could do it in your place.

Stress-Test It

Look back at step 3. What is the single most likely way this goes wrong? Does that possibility actually change your plan?

Weakest point

Does it change the plan?

Now I See Its Shape

Reduce your entire challenge to one word — the thing you are really training. Then write one sentence explaining why that word, and not a safer one.

Why that word?

Discuss Tell your partner your one word — do they think it is accurate, or are you naming an easier version of the real challenge?

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