Fourth, there will be times when you do not achieve an immediate goal, but you must be resilient and bounce back. My research advisor was a highly successful scientist, but he always told us his stories or stories of even the best of the best researchers not having their grant funded or their manuscript being rejected or the best educators struggling with how to get their students/post-doctoral fellows to learn new ideas, concepts and/or skills through activities in the classroom, laboratory, or clinic. I learned from him and others that we are all allowed to be angry or mad at these rejections for a maximum period of 24 to 48 hours, after which we must resign ourselves to re-approach our projects and move them forward to the next step. One cannot be too stubborn as the next step in some circumstances could be to refocus our research or manuscripts. Everyone will experience rejection but those who stay resilient and positive will be successful over the long haul of an academic career.