The core skills of Frank Abagnale so successful (transferred from foreign websites)

Else 2022-04-22 07:01:02

I think it makes a lot of sense, so I will attach it to everyone (LZ is too lazy to translate it for the time being...)
All in all, you have to be confident, have the guts, and don't change your face and heart when you fool...

Frank had the confidence to be anybody he wanted to be

Frank had the confidence to be a pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer. He had a gift at a young age to be charming and romantic with everybody he met.

People wanted to be around him. They wanted to believe him. He created a fantasy life for himself. And from the outside it appeared he was the happiest person in the world.

What gave Frank the ability to succeed was his confidence.

Everyone who want success needs to have the self confidence to say and write about what they 're passionate about. Not everybody is going to like you, but if you have self confidence people will be able to tell and they'll be drawn to you.

They'll believe in what you're saying and writing.

You don't have to trick people into believing you're something you're not.

Be yourself.

You are charming and interesting.

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Extended Reading

Catch Me If You Can quotes

  • Carl Hanratty: Our unknown subject is a paperhanger who started working on the East Coast. In the last few weeks this unsub has developed a new form of check fraud which I'm calling "the float". What he's doing is opening checking accounts at various banks then chaning the MICR ink routing numbers at the bottom of those checks. Next slide, please. This is a map of the 12 banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Slide. MICR scanners at every bank read these numbers at the bottom of the check - slide - and they ship that check off to its corresponding branch.

    Special Agent Witkins: Carl, for those of us who are unfamiliar with bank fraud you mind telling us what the hell you're talking about?

    Carl Hanratty: The East Coast branches are numbered zero-one to zero-six. The central branch is zero-seven, zero-eight so on, so forth.

    Special Agent Witkins: You mean the numbers at the bottom of a check actually mean something?

    Carl Hanratty: All of this was in the report I filed two days ago. If you change a zero-two to a one-two that means a check, which was cashed in New York Federal Branch but it is rerouted all the way to San Francisco Federal Branch. The bank doesn't even know the check has bounced for two weeks, which means our unsub can stay in one place, paper the same city over and over again, while his checks circle the country.

  • Frank Abagnale, Jr.: [of the FBI] Carl, how long do I have to work here?

    Carl Hanratty: 7:15 in the morning, 4:00 in the afternoon, 45 minutes for lunch.

    Frank Abagnale, Jr.: I mean, how long?

    Carl Hanratty: Every day. Every day, Frank, until we let you go.