I love books and movies. If you read the book he wrote himself or watch the film, it seems we do not get a positive rating from Jordan Belfort. He is an acute drug user, is good at playing women, spends his wife and children at home, greedy, tax evaders, laundry money, to waste as much money as he can spend even for trivial desires. Jordan Belfort, nicknamed the Wolf of Wall Street, destroyed himself, his family, and others. So, what lessons can be learned from a person like this?
Wait a minute. We can learn from good things and can learn from bad things. Wise people say, it is not what happens to us and others that are important, but how we react to these events that are important. A person who falls into the sea then moves his hands and feet to save himself, is much better than a person who falls into the sea and curses God or hopes that someone else comes to save himself.
That's what Jordan “The Wolf of Wall Street” Belford looks like.
After watching the film in 2013, I read the book a few years later. Could not finish the book immediately because the main job (at that time) was very consuming time, thought, and energy. Since watching movies and reading books and having different pleasures, I have tried to summarize some of the lessons that can be taken from Jordan Belfort.
Here it is easy to mention the important lessons are; his enthusiasm to work until he became a billionaire at the age of 26 after at the age of 16 he became an ice-cream seller. But, how can he do that, must read some of his books, because everyone will get a different lesson.
In my opinion, here are six lessons from The Wolf of Wall Street that can serve as a guide for anyone:
1. Receive the Bitter Part
Success does not come quickly, there must be a bitter part that must be passed before success comes. Must experience failure after failure. After we spend our rations of failure, then success will come. There is no success without failure. No pain no gain.
JB was willing to get through this bitter part of being an ice-cream seller, failing, and being insulted. In fact, all of this is the trigger for success.
That rule also applies at Steemit. Our good posts are not glimpsed by people, that's the bitter part. Getting bully by people, that's the bittersweet part. When we start feeling alone, that's also the bitter part. Must be accepted and go through the process with joy.
2. Focus on the end goal
When JB sets a goal, he will focus on making that dream come true at all costs (this last part should not be duplicated). But imitate his passion to make dreams come true. Once set goals, JB never wavered from turning away.
There are also many temptations to turn to on this platform. When settling for a specific destination but in the middle of the journey a lot of shocks. Don't stop the trip. Posts that get 0.00 Hive are common, especially in the early days. Just keep going and don't stop until the goal is reached. The city of Rome was not built overnight.
3. Dare to accept risks
there is always risk in investing and there is always risk in this life. Even staying at home doing nothing is risky. What we can do is minimize risks and maximize opportunities.
JB is very brave to accept any risk because he is a speculator. Investors in cryptocurrency should be aware from the start that this is a risky business. So, you must be mentally prepared for big losses (also mentally ready for big profits). High-risk high return. Low rewards or no reward at all are risks that must be accepted. Fear not, it is the lowest possible risk. You have to be familiar with all the risks if you want to succeed.
4. Not insecure
Jordan had just failed in his first business. Her self-confidence sank, but she didn't hold back or blame anyone. He tried to work as a liaison at a securities company. His boss called it "First class pool mud," Jordan accepted. Even when his superior called, he replied with a satire: "First class slush, ready to serve!"
When his boss Mark Hanna invited him to lunch at a restaurant in a fancy building, Jordan never thought that a few years later the building would be his. And Mark Hanna who earned one million dollars a year (it was 1987!) then became his men.
JB never felt small in the big ocean. This is an important lesson for those of us who are still plantonk or minnows. Remember, many great people were also plankton.
5. Loved his friends
JB really loves his friends. He worked as a team, as a community that was indoctrinated to be great and rich. He doctrines his men to feel there is no other way but to become rich. The most brutal investment company he built, Stratton Oakman, is considered a family with dreams of getting rich.
At Hive we also need community. There is a role for other people in supporting our success. The whole community is our friend to who we must pay attention in order to get the attention of others. That's the rule.
6. Be generous
When he was rich, JB was very generous and gave wealth to his family, siblings, and friends. He had tens of millions of dollars in his friends. He never forgot the support of his friends in achieving success.
Likewise, the rules apply on many platforms. Don't be stingy with your friends after you succeed. Pay attention to them in any form, and it is not merely voted. Many other concerns are sometimes more meaningful and have a long-term impact. When we fail in the future (we never know), it is our friends who will lift us up again.
So I think six lessons from The Wolf of Wall Street for everyone. Those are old books and old films, but the philosophical values in them remain relevant whenever and wherever. []