As you may or may not have heard, I was really excited about the opportunity to attend an Alternative MBA with Seth Godin in New York.
Check out the opportunity here and my application here.
The News
Well today I found out that I won’t be one of the lucky few chosen. While I am disappointed, I found the entire process incredibly valuable. Having to sort through my thoughts, feelings and digital foot print in short order has brought new ideas and opportunities to the forefront of my mind.
Also, it doesn’t hurt that the rejection letter was so well written. I’ve posted it below.
Quick Thank You
To all of you who wrote great words on my application or sent it to a friend thank you. I have some exciting plans in the works with my friends at Giant Ant Media along with some other projects that will keep me more than busy. So keep checking in, I’m sure I won’t disappoint.
So thank you and NEXT!
Seth Godin Alternative MBA Rejection Letter
The following is the email Seth Godin sent to me regarding my application
You are amazing.
I’m stunned.
Bowled over.
Amazed.
And optimistic about our future (and yours).
The applications I received were astonishingly good. Thorough and honest and clear and direct. They were motivating and demonstrated just how much people can do when they put their minds to it. I read every word of every application and I learned a lot.
If I had 60 seats, I still would have had too many people awe-inspiring applying. Unfortunately, I have nowhere near that, and so I had to make difficult, irrational and not particularly fair choices. Alas, I’m going to be unable to work with you in 2009. There are still interviews and such to go through, so I don’t have the final group selected, but I thought the fairest thing to do was let you know as soon as possible.
The good news, and I hope you think it’s good news, is that you don’t need me. As I said before, I have no magic wand, no secret recipe. Your decision to just make it happen, to push forward, to change… that was the hard part.
Go. Do that. Blow them away. I fully expect it will happen.
Thanks for taking the time and thanks for understanding.
Seth
PS I’m going to post on my blog about how stellar each of you are… and I’m linking to a Google listing of applications (all of them, accepted and not). If you don’t want to be seen by others, you should delete your lens (if you made one). But I think you should be extraordinarily proud of what you’ve built and what you’ve done… and you might even get a new gig because of it.
Photo Credit to Andreas
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