I just got a DUI. I don't need a VC, but if a VC were to reject me b/c of this I'd find another one. I don't think you can win if the other party has such a limiting belief.
I don't think that not wanting to invest in someone who has recently shown a complete failure in judgment is much of a limiting belief. If you can't take other people's lives seriously, how can you be expected to take other people's money seriously? If the DUI were a little further in the past then it would be a different story, and I'm sure there are VCs out there wouldn't care about a recent one, but if I were a VC I'd move on pretty quickly.
Oh, please:) Tell me overwhelming majority never operated an internal combustion engine under influence. I didn't say I don't take other people's lives seriously. I said I got caught. Now, holding a belief that this somehow causes a reduction in my performance to create something that humans like, is indeed a limiting belief. Forget about causality, one would be hard pressed to display co-existence in that domain. I would expect the co-existence to point to the inverse: increased intoxicating chemical consumption co-exists with increased creativity (probably, mainly because pure creativity is not exactly human).