This week I watched a documentary that changed my perspective! 🤯
I have a project called GiriÅŸimzel. Entrepreneurship-focused curation site. The main subject I focus on is "high quality", so I consume the content I share first myself. If I cannot consume it myself, I take suggestions from entrepreneurs I know and trust. And I'm sharing it on this list.
There are 6 main categories.
- Entrepreneur movies, series, documentaries, podcasts, books, YouTube channels.
At a meeting I attended last week, an entrepreneur I know suggested a documentary. I started watching that night. A documentary that expands your horizons insanely! After this documentary, I reconsidered my actions. I will describe these actions at the end of the article.
Documentary Name:
Undercover Billionaire
https://www.girisimzel.com/documentary#undercover-billionaire
Documentary Subject:
Billionaires hide their identities and try to start a startup where they try to make $100 out of $1 million in 90 days.
The first season was perfect! I just finished episode 4 of the second season. It's beyond super!
I am a fast-action person. I'm sharing the processes I've already experienced by making buildinpublic on Twitter.
Have you watched this documentary?
What lessons did you learn?
Which ones did you apply?
Are there any other documentaries you can recommend?
Have you watched this documentary?
I did. When I stuck in my bed, sick.
What lessons did you learn?
They are for entertainment and promotion. Shouldn't be taken serious.
Which ones did you apply?
None, so far. Story-line on season one was acceptable but it gets worse, I don't wanna spoil it.
Are there any other documentaries you can recommend?
There is Samuel Leeds doing something similar and selling a course at the end. As these billionaires doing the same, selling courses or consultancy.
IIRC Mike Black started a series and failed.
I mean they are fun to watch, seeing every obstacles turning into dust along the way is encouraging. Every piece settles in place in time but it's far from reality. Could be a moral booster but nothing to take lessons. Except on meta level.
You're right. You shouldn't believe it 100%. Because some things happen by chance. If there's a luck factor in a job, I can't believe it. It doesn't seem realistic to me. For example, a person you don't know trusts you immediately. Suspicious.
A realistic example: buying and selling things. I know this because my dad sometimes finds something not bad on the road when he's driving something and trades it. 😂 It's a working system. 😂 It got me thinking about using it to finance my products.
It could be a business by itself. Buy broken stuff for cheap, fix and sell for profit. Not gonna make you a millionaire but put food on the table.
A lesson I took from these could be, nothing good will happen while I sit on my ass. In fact if I ask 100 people, one of them could be in a good mood to help me out or trust me not as in this series but you know. It's not going to happen without trying.