I just watched Jordan Belfort being interviewed by Vlad Lyubovny (DJVlad/Vlad TV) and it's clear (imo) Jordan possesses tons of emotional intelligence, it's obvious by how closely he listens to every question asked, excellent eye contact, he's intuitive and skilled at reading people/the room etc.
Guy doesn't miss a trick!!
I can understand why he's so great at sales and why people got sucked in and fell for his manipulations and elaborate schemes!
He's also smart! He was discussing penny stocks and "pump and dump" techniques etc and I tried to follow but jeez! Extremely complicated stuff imo and I'm a fairly smart person!
Re: his character, people say you can't change one's character, you can fake having good character but it's a facade.
After watching/listening to this interview, I am not sure now because it seems Jordan during his Wall Street years, while insanely successful business wise, had piss poor character and would use any means he could whether ethical or not to manipulate, control, scheme in order to get richer!
Now 30 years later, after serving time and writing the book (which is an amazing story in and of itself as admittedly he couldn't write even a page to save his life!), he's done some major introspection and self-reflection, acknowledges mistakes, owns his shyt and the chaos he created, paid all the money back to investors and displays humility!
He appears to have done a complete transformation and is now a legitimate motivational speaker helping others!
OR is this just more pretending, more manipulation?
Another different facade?