How do deal with rejection by someone you admired?

Hi,

How do deal with romantic rejection by someone that really impressed me?

So, I often dealt with rejections in the past by understanding it was "superficial level rejection". By "superficial level rejection" I mean when you are being rejected over something superficial, for example being overweight, Muslim/Christian, having bad reputation. A person usually just looks at this superficial level thing and rejects you without getting to know you. And realizing that made me distance myself to many rejections, as they were superficial and the other person didn't really know me.

The other way I dealt with rejections was by understanding that rejections are mutual. That we walk in this world and with some people we will be good match, and with other don't. And if I got rejected, that means we just weren't meant for each other. And if the other person rejects me, he only does me a favour, showing me he is not the right person. And this made me see things I didn't like about the person too. So at the end I saw it as "being rejected by someone I wouldn't want to be with".

But this time, I got rejected by someone I really admired. Someone that would be very attractive by societal norms (very successful person that achieved a lot in his life and basically had all those "life goods" most people consider to be successful life). He also had few things I personally considered very admirable that I haven't seen in most people. And it's hard to explain it to myself that we weren't meant for each other and there were plenty of things I didn't like about the person, because he was very much successful and impressive person. It made me realize all my weaknesses I wasn't aware of before. He also pointed out to me things that needed improvement, and he was so right.

So I was rejected by someone that had all things I considered impressive and also pointed out a lot of my weaknesses which he was right about. I started even working on them while dating this person, but got rejected anyway. It makes me feel inferior and worse than him. That I was rejected by someone "better than me". And even my pathentic attempts to reach his level failed, because he rejected me at the end. And - he was very attractive to other women too, so I see now I just wasn't special and good enough for his standards. I looked worse than other girls he knew and had flaws other girls he dated didn't have.

How to cope with it?