With 17 fully supported Unreasonable Fellows and just a week left to support 8 more Unreasonable entrepreneurs I thought I would share a personal story. A good friend of mine did a remarkable thing, but she didn’t think much of it. If fact, she almost seemed embarrassed. At what was basically a whisper, she told me that she had supported two Unreasonable Finalists at the Finalists Marketplace. I basically shot out of my chair with excitement!
To her, giving the small amount that she did (be it $5 or $10 or even $50 – I am not sure) was not significant based on what the entrepreneurs at the Finalist Marketplace were trying to do to improve the world. I asked her if I could kindly shift her thinking. “Let’s say you sponsored just 1% of the cost for an Unreasonable Finalist to attend the Unreasonable Institute,” I told her. “Let me calculate what that translates into.”
“The goal at the Unreasonable Institute is for each entrepreneur to go on to improve the lives of at least 1,000,000 people. Pretend the entrepreneur fails at 90% of this goal. They will still have improved the lives of 100,000 people. If you can say you were just 1% of the reason that he or she came to the Unreasonable Institute and helped those 100,000 people, that’s 1,000 people that you have helped that entrepreneur reach. ”I would say helping 1,000 people IS significant and something you should be VERY proud of.”
She agreed.
Remember, enough 1%’s will add up to 100% and will send a brilliant, driven entrepreneur to the Unreasonable Institute where they will train to improve the lives of millions. In this last week we hope you visit http://UnreasonableFinalists.org and support an Unreasonable Finalist that you believe in.
With Unreasonable excitement,
Tyler Hartung and the Unreasonable Institute Team
