A man who went to prison for talking people out of their money filmed himself doing it live, then sold the method as a course. 7 million people have watched him work.
The man is Jordan Belfort. The film about him made him famous. What almost nobody has done is watch the real one, on camera, running the actual technique on a real prospect for 22 minutes with no script and no edit.
And the way he does it is the reason to watch.
He barely talks about the product. The first minutes are almost entirely questions, and every answer gets used against the person later in his own words. He is not persuading. He is collecting.
Then the phrase the comments turned into a meme. He ends his key sentences with four words that make agreement feel like the neutral option and refusal feel like rudeness. Once you notice it, you cannot unhear it, and you will catch it in the next call you take.
One viewer broke the whole method into 9 steps in a comment. It got 12 thousand likes, which tells you people are studying this video like a manual.
Here is the uncomfortable part. Every technique in it is ordinary sales advice: listen, mirror, remove friction, set expectations. That is exactly what makes it worth studying. The tools were never the crime. The intent was.
Learn what is being done to you and it stops working on you. That is the only defense there is.
22 minutes. No script. It is in the video.
RAY DALIO BUILT A 30-MINUTE VIDEO THAT EXPLAINS THE ENTIRE ECONOMY, AND HE SAYS THE TEMPLATE HELPED HIM SIDESTEP 2008
"How the Economic Machine Works" is free on YouTube, and it compresses a career of macro investing into one framework.
The machine: an economy is just transactions. Your spending is someone else's income. Credit lets everyone spend more than they earn today, which creates the boom, and forces everyone to spend less than they earn later, which creates the bust. In his words, credit is "the most important part of the economy and probably the least understood."
Two cycles run at once: a short debt cycle every 5-8 years, and a long one every 75-100 years that ends in deleveraging. 1929, Japan in 1989, and 2008 were all the long cycle topping out.
His three rules at the end are the whole video in 30 seconds:
1. Don't let your debt rise faster than your income. It will eventually crush you.
2. Don't let your income rise faster than your productivity. You'll become uncompetitive.
3. Do everything you can to raise your productivity. In the long run, it's what matters most.
Thirty minutes that will teach you more than most finance classes ever will.
🔴A British guy thought “Eid Mubarak” was an Arabic curse 🤣
During an argument with a Pakistani man, he kept shouting it… thinking it was an insult.
Meanwhile he was just saying “Happy Eid” the whole time 😂
@mobinta10 Unlike our Gambia, we have to sit a theoretical exam first, and after many costly practical lessons, you go through a 40 minutes driving test assessing different maneuvers 😊. Having gone through it, it's rigorous hence many celebrate it.
Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,
"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"
"Aside from presenting Match of the Day, the most iconic football show for 26 years"
"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"
@GaryLineker Legend 👏
*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*
**“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”**
My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
**I’m writing this to tell you something simple:**
**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.**
Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.
You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.
You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.
*With love and gentleness,*
— Patricia Routledge
⚡️JUST IN:
Pep Guardiola, while receiving an honorary degree from the University of Manchester, gave a powerful speech about Gaza:
"It is so painful what we see in Gaza, it hurts all my body...it is not about ideology but the love of life...It is about refusing to be silent or still when it matters the most"
This guy is rewriting the marketing playbook.
• Built a $100M+ empire from scratch
• Writes content that gets millions of views weekly
• Gives away business secrets for free
• Dresses like he’s never heard of Gucci
Here’s Alex Hormozi’s exact marketing playbook (that you should copy TODAY): 🧵
Tottenham drew
Newcastle drew
Chelsea still shit
Manchester United win
Onana clean sheet
Garnacho starboy Brace ⚽⚽
We eating good tonight 🤩
#mufc#MUNWHU
@UTDTrey At this stage with United caputulating before the season gets properly underway, I don't mind Arsenal wining the league just so City don't have the record of wining the league 4 times in a row.