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What would life be like if every risk you took ended in success?

In Win or Learn, rejection expert and New York Times bestselling author Harlan Cohen lays the framework for identifying your wants, taking the risks necessary to pursue them, and finding success no matter the outcome.
This step-by-step risk-taking experiment will guide you on a journey to understand your worth and fight for your goals without the fear of rejection-because rejection is a universal truth but not a final destination.
Cohen's revolutionary perspective on risk-taking and rejection will help you realize your dreams, understand your limits, and find victory in every risk.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

Advice columnist Cohen (The Naked Roommate) lays out strategies for turning negative outcomes into positive ones in this refreshing guide. In five steps--explore what one wants, get comfortable with the uncomfortable, set a direction and have patience, "tell your story as if it has already happened," and reflect--Cohen helps readers articulate goals and develop ways to overcome road bumps. Cohen explains that the "universal rejection truth" means that no matter how one intends an action, "not everyone and everything will always respond to you the way you want." He explains common reasons people experience rejection (such as "raw rejection," due to an innate quality or character trait, and "rejection by circumstance," due to factors independent of one's makeup), provides checklists and prompts for readers to uncover ambitions, recommends finding "people and places" who will champion one's goals, and using mentors and aspirational scripts (including mad-lib style exercises) to work toward those goals. Throughout, he shares examples of his rules in action, such as an underprivileged woman who found it difficult to afford college, but found "being poor can be great" after she met others who empathized and could help. Any self-help reader feeling stuck will find useful tips here. (Jan.)

Booklist Review

Writing in the forthright style of a self-help book, seven-time author Cohen (The Naked Roommate, 2017) pulls no punches. Here his focus is on overcoming the rejection syndrome, a mindset that supports the "I just can't win--at anything" talk. Much of his advice centers on how he's overcome that feeling himself, though he does feature scenarios from a few other people from from time to time. It begins, he says, with accepting that not everything or everyone will respond to you in the way you want. The four other steps in the process include identifying what you want, thinking about how people/places/patience can help, and telling your story as if it already happened. Then celebrate, reflect, and repeat. Each step features an experiment (usually a question or two to answer) so readers can truly practice what Cohen's preaching. The occasionally difficult-to-digest narrative is accompanied by a wacky (and pleasing) sense of humor and self-deprecation ("Harlan Cohen has been rejected more times than most human beings," he writes).

Author notes provided by Syndetics

HARLAN COHEN is The New York Times bestselling author of The Naked Roommate series and six other titles. His books have sold over 1 million copies in print in multiple languages. Harlan is a speaker who helps thousands of students, parents, educators, and professionals every year. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Before College TV.