Jordan Belfort
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So now, flash on, I'm in jail.
I'm in the worst moment of my life.
Right.
Everything is stripped away.
You're with the so-called losers of society because everyone is lost at the game of life.
You're locked up with no money, no power.
You're just like the lowest piece of pond scum on the totem pole.
Right.
Right.
And I get this idea from Tommy Chong, who I love and credit for starting this whole thing of writing this book.
Right.
And I'm trying to write and I suck at it.
I can't write.
And I'm reading this Tom Wolfe book and I'm trying to improve my thing.
I paid one kid four cans of tuna.
I said, go through this book.
And every time he compares a person to something else, like a metaphor, a simile, write it down for me.
So that's how granular I was getting and trying to crack Tom Wolfe's code, right?
And it was months in the beginning.
I'd say about month three, four, five of trying to write where I honestly felt I just can't go on doing this.