How should one shift focus outward during the interview process to build emotional resilience against taking things personally?

Treating the interview as a mutual assessment where the candidate also interviews the employer.

Building mental toughness, or resilience, involves shifting perspective from being purely assessed to actively assessing the opportunity. Instead of approaching the interview as an audition where the primary goal is to prove worthiness, the candidate should treat it as a mutual assessment. This reframing encourages the candidate to ask probing questions about potentially negative aspects of the role or environment, such as team turnover rates, management style, and daily pressures. If the answers received during this mutual evaluation cause unease, the resulting rejection, though initially disappointing, can retrospectively be viewed as having saved the candidate from entering a potentially poor professional environment.