Monday, March 28, 2016

If everyone is so special and unique, then it follows…

ROTW Contributor: Angela Durden

…that nobody is. 

Therefore, why do so many spend so much time trying to convince us we are Special & Unique (S&U) as if being S&U was the goal? And why do so many S&U folks pay good money and massive amounts of time to read a book or sit in an audience where somebody on stage is telling us how awesome we are — even when they don’t know anything about us?

Are we that needy?

Look. Pay me the money. I’ll get up on a stage and tell folks how to tell their ego to shut the heck up and, instead of popping that short-term drug of choice (You are sooooo awesome!), I will guide you on how to concentrate on good and solid business ideas…and how to tweak those…or something practical that will contribute to the betterment of their world around them.

The ex-husband said I’m very, very good at telling folks’ egos to take a hike, but that’s a very personal story and besides, I choose to think I was using my core competencies to best advantage, right? Right?

But just hang on now. I know you’re all eager to feel the pain of my metaphorical boot on your ego’s backside, but don’t ask me for any details on my course of —Hmmmm…what am I going to call this anti-S&U course?  In any case, then you’ll know how S&U I am, right?

And when you pay me money for my course, well, I’ll definitely tell you how S&U you are, money-back guarantee on that, and then –

Darn it. There I am, right back to that old feel-good junk…dang it. I’ll get back to you on this… Holy cow! I just came up with a title for my course.

Teach Your Id to
Kick Your Ego’s Butt (c) (TM)

THE FINE PRINT: (c) (TM) 2016 All Rights Reserved. No one may use this title or any derivative of it without permission of the S&U person who thought it up and wrote it down. Requests for licensing may be sent to the S&U person through all Social Media now known or to be invented including, but not limited to, Linkedin contact portals and personal website contact pages. This S&U course title may be mentioned in news stories and other real journalistic reports without permission (though only God knows where those publications are these days) and editorial/opinion columns (though who can tell the difference these days between those and hard news) whether online or in print, as long as the S&U originator’s name is fully mentioned and spelled correctly, and must include a subscription to each and every printed publication along with honest-to-goodness tear sheets for printed matter sent to the S&U’s publicist and manager.
 
GUARANTEE (BUT NO MONEY BACK): The S&U person who thought up this title is available for paid speaking engagements and guarantees that everyone who leaves will never again think they are S&U, but instead will get busy making the world a better place.
 
WARNINGS: Anyone who takes the above entitled course agrees to forever hold harmless the S&U person who thought this up, and recognizes she is using the time-honored discipline approach called Tuff Luv (c). Anyone who signs up for and/or attends the course agrees that they are not as S&U as the person who is conducting the course, and agrees that if their feelings get hurt whether publicly (by volunteering to appear on stage in a dramatic reenactment of a scene or by raising their hand and being called on to answer a question) or privately, they forever have no recourse at law for slander, libel, or defamation of character as they will know that these events will be filmed (videotaped) and photographed and used online and in books as supplementary course material to be purchased forever and ever on Earth and any other planet or asteroid or moon but excluding stars and black holes as everybody knows nothing can exist there, but as may become inhabitable by humans, humanoids, or other creatures now known or to be discovered but who also need to have their ego kicked, and therefore cannot claim ignorance of their likeness and/or story and/or name being used in these fashions and manners by the S&U person who thought up this life-changing course.
 
NOTICE: The use of Tuff and Luv in their phonetic and capitalized forms, as well as the more common Tough and Love which may, at the discretion of the S&U person who thought of it, be used interchangeably at her discretion, have now and forever been glommed onto by the S&U person who wrote this, and all the above exclusions and permissions apply to them as to the originating title of the course including Copyright and Trade Mark. Don’t like it? Come to one of the S&U’s courses and she’ll tell you to suck it up and will kick your ego to hell and back after, of course, her attorney has sent you a letter of cease and desist with all the prerequisite and expensive but legally and awesomely threatening verbiage that shall put the fear of Bejesus into anyone who dares to do anything contrary to what this S&U person wants or needs. After all, she has an ego, too, and because she is so S&U she reserves the right not to have others kick her ego, though she will welcome those kicks as long as appointments for such are made through her manager. Please do not bother her publicist for this appointment as the publicist’s job duties do not include appointment making. 

 
Wow. I like it. Details soonish.

 This is a picture of a S&U person kicking her own ego and actually thinking and questioning her own abilities, and then working on that stuff. See, she practices what she preaches.
No hypocrisy there.
Just ask her ex-husband.

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