Eric Church Said ‘No’ Is a Great Way to Get Inspired for Success

So how do you react when someone tells you no? After you hear those words of rejection, what is your next move?

Do you thank the person for their time and move on or do you throw in the towel and give up?

Today's Kick Butt Tip of the Day is from Country music superstar and North Carolina native Eric Church.

In a recent interview, Eric said that being told "No" is a great way to get inspired to succeed. There’s a motivation in being told no, that you can’t do something. It’s okay to go to ten places and get the door slammed in your face. It’s an integral part of learning who you are as an artist." Eric also added, "and remember, Nashville told Randy Travis to put a hat on, they told George Strait to take a hat off.”

If I may, let me share another motivational story with you. Today, she is now worth over a billion dollars, but at one time, she was an unemployed mom with a child and was dependent on government benefits. Looking back, she said it took her 6 long years to complete her first book. And if that wasn't enough, her publisher told her no saying it was impossible for her to support herself writing kids' books. But she was able to find another publisher who gladly published her books. Later those books were turned into hugely successful movies. Her name? J. K. Rowling as in Harry Potter fame.

Here's another story you may not believe. Michael Jordan failed to make his 10th grade high school basketball team. The man who would go on to win 6 National Basketball Association championships was told that he lacked the skill needed. Many consider Jordan the greatest professional basketball player of all time.

Should anyone ever try to steal your dream, remember what Eric Church said. "Being told No is a great way to get inspired to succeed."

As we close, Eric is in fact from the great state of North Carolina and the town of Granite Falls. Granite Falls is about a half-hour Northeast of Raleigh.

Go get 'em tiger! God don't make no junk. You, yes you are awesome! Now go be awesome!

- Don Chase's Kick Butt Tip of the Day is a daily motivational feature designed to give you the inspiration you need to power through your day. Check out all the Kick Butt Tips here.

Have you ever felt that you looked really good, but then after taking a selfie, think, "Oh, my gosh. I look horrible. Please tell me I don't really look like that." Well, the good news is that you don't. There are a lot of factors that are in play when it comes to selfies. The truth is that selfies can really distort your look. That said, people have actually hated their mirror image since the beginning of time, Psychology Today points out, but that's not what's happening here. So, no, you don't really look like your selfies, and here's why.

Before we get into the reasons, it's safe to say we can blame the digital age. "Every digital camera uses algorithms to transform the different wavelengths of light that hit its sensor into an actual image," The Atlantic explains. There's an actual science about this that I'll get into below. But, before we get into the fakeness of selfies, here are some tips on getting a good "selfie" that look at least more like you than what you're used to getting with your camera phone.

My friend and coworker Kayla Morgan is all over TikTok, and she's also noticed influencers talk about the selfie game. "I've seen many influencers on platforms like Instagram and TikTok share their 'secrets' to the perfect videos and selfies," she says. So, what's the secret? "That secret is using your back camera, not the front. It makes perfect sense! My back camera has three different lenses, while my front camera facing me only has one. You can definitely see the difference in my content as well as other influencers I follow on social media." That's a great tip. I've been shooting music videos for my band, Upon Wings, lately, and I've been using only the selfie camera. It's not looking right, so I'm going to give that a try. Experiment with using the back camera and remember, no matter what, you don't really look like that.

Now, read on for the science behind why you don't really look like your selfies.

Lenses flatten our image. Photographer Nadia Meli spoke with Cosmopolitan.com about this reality. "Our bodies and faces do not look the same in the mirror, on a professional DSLR, on the phone camera, the front lens the back lens - all of these don't show us how we actually look either!" she said via the magazine. "Lenses always flatten us, it's just 2D, not 3D and doesn't give an accurate representation of what we see when someone is in front of us IRL!" Crazy, right? She added that the camera actually fails to capture what's really in front of it.

Upworthy.com explains why selfie cameras are the absolute worst. They state, "Cellphone selfie cameras usually have an even smaller focal length than the 40 mm shown here (Winters points out that the iPhone 13 Pro Max selfie camera has the equivalent of a 23 mm focal length), so they distort facial features even more." They add that other factors are how far away you are from the camera, because the closer you are, the more distorted your photos will be. Another reason the camera doesn't capture what we look like in real life, aside from the lenses, is the 2D factor. You're not going to look the same on a 2D photo as you will in real life. Lighting is also a huge issue. Lighting can make or break a photo.

Selfies can make your nose look much bigger than it really is. "For years, I've heard patients and family members say, 'Oh, look at my nose, it looks so big,' when they show me a selfie," Dr. Paskhover tells Yahoo. "I was always telling my patients, that's not how you really look." Selfies simply distort your nose shaped, due to the lens and your distance from it.

"The image you see in the mirror is reversed compared to the image that others see face-to-face with you," Psychology Today explains. "Your friends are familiar with your non-reversed image, while you are familiar with your reversed image in a regular mirror." That totally makes sense.

The Huffington Post points out that, "Different camera lenses can change the way people look in photos." They add that, "the shorter the lens, the wider it’s going to make your face." So, make note if you don't want your face to look super wide.