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"Talk the talk and walk the walk. This and the other lessons of my transition to the office" by Ben Seymour Early on in Martin Scorsese’s 2014 film The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort is shown the stockbroking ropes by the charismatic Donnie Azoff, played by Matthew McConaughey. As the baby-faced Belfort looks on in awe, Azoff dismantles the notion that brokers are any more informed about the finer workings of the stock market than anybody else. Says Azoff: “First rule of Wall Street: nobody knows if a stock’s going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to act like we know.” This advice remains as one of my early workplace experiences involved acting as if I knew what I was doing a lot of the time - without the advantages afforded by McConaughey’s effortless cool. Everyone Talks a Good Game - You Should Too: It took me a long time to learn the “Donnie Azoff Lesson” but I was not the only person in the... rest of column here: https://lnkd.in/dr-VrJx === #earlystageprofessional #theoffice #firstjob #presence #impostersyndrome