The
Award: Startup entrepreneurs face many obstacles
when starting their businesses. Not the least of which is
their friends and family telling them that they need to
"get their head examined" for doing such a crazy
thing.
Our
thinking is that "Little Sigmund" offers you a
great opportunity to examine your own head. Just stand him
in the corner of the room, lay down on your couch and start
talking. For best results it helps to have some prerecorded
psychiatric "grunting" or "uuh-huh"
sounds to make it feel like you're in the room with an actual
counselor.
To win
the award, you must get up on stage and tell us about your
most pathetic failure. Grand prize goes to the brave soul
who truly opens their kimono on this one. Its very therapeutic
to laugh at other people's misery. But we also learn well
in the process.
Disclaimer:
While we realize that people with pathetic failures who
don't measure up to being "the most pathetic"
may feel distraught, knowing that the bottom of the barrel
is even lower than when they hit bottom, The DaVinci Institute
accepts no responsibility for this rude awakening.
People
seeking advice from a little action figure are truly pathetic.
Business people who go to their office to talk to their
dolls are pathetic. And people who think that their life
will change just because they received their 15 minutes
of fame for being declared the "most pathetic"
are also pathetic.
This
event should not be construed as professional therapy. It
should, however, be considered amature therapy that has
much more value than professional therapy because most professional
therapists tend to blame their mother for everything. We
also don't charge the exhorbatant fees most people pay to
figure out that they should blame their mother.
Disclaimer
to Mothers: Mothers are not to blame for your failures
in business. You may blame them for giving birth to you,
but your screwups in business are your fault. They are also
not the fault of your father, your brother, your partner,
or even the IRS. Well.... maybe the IRS. And maybe you could
blame your mother if she happens to work for the IRS.
If my
mother worked for the IRS, I guess I'd be in therapy too.
In fact, now that I think about it, I'd probably want to
kill myself. I'd probably spend most of my days on the couch
talking to my little Sigmund, blaming my mother.
But
the DaVinci Institute accepts no responsibilty for these
kind of actions or for you blaming your mother.
