Becoming Thomas Shelby: The Art of Survival

Are you a Peaky Blinder?

Peaky Blinder is a series that can be enjoyed on a movie streaming platform. This series tells about the life of a family who holds high power in a small town. The background of this family life is located in England, precisely in the city of Birmingham. This series is based on a legendary family who also lived in the city from 1890. The Peaky Blinder group itself is famous for its kinship, and on the one hand, it is famous for the abominations it causes. This group is not afraid to lose the life of anyone who dares to confront them and the goals they want to achieve. Various groups from Ireland, Italy, and even from England themselves felt how cruel the Peaky Blinder group was.

Peaky Blinder is led by a person named Thomas Shelby, with 4 core members, namely his two brothers, one sister, and also his aunt. Thomas Shelby himself is someone who has been through many sad events from his childhood until he became a soldier when the first world war occurred. Thomas Shelby's First World War shaped him so much that he is who he is today. Like a coin that has two sides, there are still good qualities from a Thomas Shelby that we can take an example of. What are these characteristics?

"Today, it will be me dead or you. But whoever it is, he’ll wake up in hell tomorrow." - Thomas Shelby

1. Stay calm

For the viewers of this series, since the initial episode of this series began, the audience will immediately be presented with various actions that are quite frightening if we experience this in the real world. However, as we know, sometimes our lives also give us pressure that is no less strong than this one series. This pressure can be in the form of pressure from colleagues, from company leaders, from extended family, from friends, from banks, and many other pressures that we may have experienced. Thomas Shelby himself often experiences pressure in this one series. Attempted murder against him, attempted murder against his brother, attempted murder against his sister, and many more. Because he has experienced many things, Thomas Shelby can keep his emotions under control when under enormous pressure.

We can imitate this for those of us who also experience pressure every day. Let's take the example of someone who will be under pressure when he wants to be interviewed to get into his dream job. That person will wholeheartedly prepare materials that can be offered to a company about himself so that the opportunity to be accepted is even greater. Is simply preparing to guarantee someone will stay calm when being interviewed by the company? The answer is uncertain. The key to Thomas Shelby's success in being calm is that he is "used to" experiencing this pressure. For someone who will be interviewed, at least he must be familiar with the smallest form of an interview. Therefore, the solutions we can take are like practicing with your family or closest friends about the material you brought for the interview. Another solution is to be able to come before the interview and start to feel the air around the room that will be the place for your interview later so that you will get used to the area

2. Reaching goals by helping others achieve their goals

Thomas Shelby in this series has many opportunities that come to be able to make money for himself and the Peaky Blinder group himself. It is not uncommon for the offer to do business that he receives to have a very big risk, we call it drugs weighing tens of tons. Thomas Shelby responded to all these opportunities to be able to work with other groups to be able to help him. There is a small difference that Thomas Shelby makes that his requests are rarely rejected by other groups. Thomas Shelby ensured that in this collaboration, the goals of someone who was invited to collaborate would be achieved first. We can call it a group from someone named Alfi Solomon, or from the Italian Group. These little tips are often not done by most of the people in this world, because some of us always put our benefits first. Not Thomas Shelby. The thing that distinguishes it too is, he helps wholeheartedly achieve these goals as if these goals are his goals too. This often creates a sense of trust between groups, and often the goals of the two groups are achieved by what they dream

3. Turning trash into something valuable

Being a Peaky Blinder family is not necessarily always feeling good. The stories in this series as we have discussed will give a lot more negativity, sometimes what we often call the word “trash”. Thomas Shelby has several things to consider when this garbage incident occurs. Call it when someone tried to kill his brother, and they failed. This garbage incident was not just a celebration because his brother was alive. Thomas Shelby uses this opportunity, to fake his brother's death, and find out who the mastermind behind this incident is. The result is that he discovers who the person behind the cruel plan is, and kills him (of course, the classic Peaky Blinder). Another incident when someone will try to have sex with a woman he likes. This incident is certainly a trash incident for a man who likes this woman. This incident was used by Thomas Shelby to state that the woman had a malignant sexually transmitted disease so that the man who tried to have sex earlier was discouraged. The result obtained by Thomas Shelby himself was that the woman became amazed by him. Things like this may seem very difficult to happen in the real world, but in some instances, it can be seen. In many cases, often our garbage or waste is just disposed of in the environment. But many young people use this opportunity to collect garbage or waste to become reusable items, such as plastic waste into buckets or used cooking oil waste to fuel planes.

Our lives may be very different from the life of Thomas Shelby in this series. But one thing is certain, Thomas Shelby's character reaches a point of perfection not because of positive things. The trauma experienced by Thomas Shelby allowed him to become the leader of the group that was most feared. When we can only copy a few things from Thomas Shelby, don't be discouraged. There are many other qualities that we can learn from other characters as well. See you in the other series!