Johnny Widodo – Everything Great in Life Follows a Process

BIO: Johnny Widodo is CEO in an automotive startup space with over 16 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies. STORY: Johnny saw a colleague who was making crazy money trading stocks daily. Johnny decided to do what his colleague was doing and ended up losing about $30,000. LEARNING: Learn and do your research to understand the investment first before you sign off on it. The game of investing is about how much you have at the end of the game.   “There is no instant thing in life. Everything follows a process.”Johnny Widodo  Guest profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnywidodo (Johnny Widodo) is CEO in an automotive startup space with over 16 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies. He is active as a global speaker, advisory board member, and mentor in various organizations. He is co-author of 2 books and has published his biography. In his free time, he is passionate about weightlifting and hosts the https://www.youtube.com/c/JTalkPodcast (J-Talk Podcast). Worst investment everWhen Johhny just started working, he had this former schoolmate and colleague who sat beside him at work. The colleague would just play his stocks, and Johnny could literally see him making hundreds, even $1,000 every day. This all seemed too easy, and obviously, he was interested in making such amounts of money so quickly. Johnny started to pump all the money he made into the same stocks as his colleague. As soon as he began trading, the market collapsed, and he lost 95% of his investment, a total of about $30,000. Lessons learnedThere is no instant thing in life. Everything follows a process. When it comes to investing, it’s not about monkey see monkey do. Learn and do your research so that you understand the investment first before you sign off on it. Things happen. You can dwell over it, but not too long. Move on, take the lessons learned, and make sure you don’t fall into the same trap again. Make as many mistakes as possible when you’re young. This is when you can aff