This is reported on Snopes:
Is this for real? Did someone come up with this as a serious motivational presentation, or was it dry humor that people subsequently took for real? It’s just too bizarre.
I could believe that some people believed it, at least enough to query snopes. The fact that Three-Card Monte continues to pull in victims , despite its being a transparently obvious fraud, pretty much proves the depths of human gullibility.
Oh my gosh that’s insultingly stupid.
I liked the slide that said “The eagle has the longest lifespan of its species.” Since they’re not talking about a specific eagle, that’s a straightforward tautology – what are they even trying to say?
Sailboat
WTF?
Even if it were true, how would it pluck its feathers out without a beak?
Mind you, the egregious use of its’ is so glaring as to make me instantly distrust the info within.
To me, it seems so virulently stupid that I can’t believe the author didn’t make and distribute it just to see how far it would go.
It has to wait for the new beak to grow, then it plucks out its age-old feathers!
Having had to endure such “motivational” stories as “The Way of the Squirrel,” “The Call of Geese,” and “The Way of the Beaver” I can assure you that there are, indeed, things out there that stupid. In fact, as I grow older, I become more and more firmly convinced that P.T. Barnum seriously underestimated how many suckers are born by several orders of magnitude.
That’s a joke. I’m sure it is. It’s so ridiculous it can’t be anything else.
Feaking!!
I pray you are not whooshing us because I would love to see those. Especially “The Way of the Beaver”.
Wait a sec. I think I found that one in the back room at the video store.
Something smells fishy in eagle land.
The last slide instructs the viewer to send a blank e-mail to an address and respond to the e-mail that is sent in reply in order to subscribe to other such presentations.
IMHO this is a crafty phishing scam. Some will view the slideshow and e-mail the creator to correct the obvious errors. Others will be more gullible and try to subscribe to the presentations. In either case a valid e-mail address is obtained.
I could be wrong of course. It may simply be a misguided method of motivation. But it seems fishy to me, especially that last slide.
That sounds like some kind of bizarre twisting of a native Indian parable or a play on the Egyptian Firebird/Phoenix mythos. Are they really trying to play it off as fact?