Rejection. Done right this time.

This is meta-contrarian bullshit. As long as people don't feel entitled to other congratulating them, everything is fine.

But where does that drive come from? It comes from being applauded along the way for the "mundane" tasks usually by parents and teachers. The same incentives this author feels are useless.

"The other day I was remembering being a teen and that certainty that the world would fall at my feet every time I drew something."