The "loser" story of Jordan Williamson

Jordan Williamson, the highly recruited high school star and once lofty in the college football world as Stanford University's star kicker, missed twice during a football game and cost the team the game.

In the locker room, Jordan wept uncontrollably.

"For months I was depressed and did not want to go out in public."

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The Secret to Finding Lasting Career Satisfaction

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The career path for Stanford Graduate School of Business alum Michael Melcher has been anything but linear: He earned a BA in 1986 from Harvard College, served as a foreign service officer for the U.S. government, earned JD and MBA degrees at Stanford University, worked as an attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell and D.E.

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Looking At The Big Picture

Ask yourself these questions:

Values: What do I like to do? What brings out my best?
Vision: How do I want to grow? What do I want to create for myself?

"Incremental efforts add up. You don’t have to do a big dramatic thing to make progress. What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while."

Don’t Wait Until You’re Unhappy

We tend to only do something about our careers when we have a problem. But if you wait until you’re laid off or dissatisfied, you may take action but it won’t feel authentic.

A better way is to look at multiple factors and work on them consistently even when you feel satisfied at your job.

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Brene Brown: How Vulnerability Can Make Our Lives Better

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Brene Brown, Credit: Danny Clark Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, as well as the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead.

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Vulnerability

It is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

You cannot outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite. The inability to lean into the discomfort of vuln...

Daring greatly

... is about showing up and being seen, about owning our vulnerability and understanding it as the birthplace of courage.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both.

What’s keeping you out of the arena? Can you name the fear? Where do you want to be braver?
Figure out how you’re currently protecting yourself from vulnerability: Perfectionism, Cynicism, Control etc.

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Lessons From the Real Wolf Of Wall Street

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Australian business coach and powerhouse Kerwin Rae shared with us some seriously insightful perspectives on addiction and what to do when life falls apart with help from the infamous Jordan Belfort. The entrepreneur and international speaker who chatted with Profoundly Human spilled on what it was like partnering with the real Wolf of Wall Street shortly after Jordan Belfort was released from prison.

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Jordan Belfort's life

... was modelled by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013

Lessons from the real Belfort

The importance of thinking big. "Belfort thinks very big, he talks in very big numbers."
The dangers of instant gratification. "people say ‘well instead of an inch how can I get a mile,’ and often times they’ll sacrifice honesty, integrity, whatever it is within their moral compass that will allow them to get there quickly.”
Most people will go through a disassembling.“If you aren’t experiencing pain you don’t question reality and seek different ways of going about things.”
Whatever it is that disassembles is typically linked to our highest values. For example, if money is of the highest value in your life, as it was for Jordan Belfort, the ego around money must dissolve. Same goes for relationships, or whatever you value most in life.