Interview: Meaningful Living & Investing
Interview: Meaningful Living & Investing
I'm excited to share this conversation I had with Bogumil Baranowski. We talked about ideas from my book, Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life, exploring my early life in Soviet Russia and the profound contrast between socialism and capitalism—lessons I believe are especially relevant today.
We discussed the unique perspectives shaped by being immigrants, the powerful influence of balancing European ways of savoring life with American entrepreneurial drive, and why aligning your life with something meaningful—what I call having "soul in the game"—matters so deeply.
You'll also hear insights on investing, particularly the critical role that people and management play, how to deal constructively with investing pain, and why the best investing ideas rarely come from long hours stuck behind a desk.
I hope you'll find this talk as enjoyable and insightful as I did. Enjoy!
Bogumil hosts a terrific podcast. I highly encourage you to subscribe. You can also listen to this episode where he interviews my dear friend Steve Gorelik.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, so please leave your comment and feedback here. Also, if you missed my previous article "Music Throughout My Life 2025", you can read it and leave a comment here.
Ballet Spartacus
Today we are going to continue exploration of music by Aram Khachaturian’s “Adagio” from the ballet Spartacus. This is a deeply personal piece of music; it unearths emotions in me like only the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov can.
Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO at IMA, a value investing firm in Denver. He has written two books on investing, which were published by John Wiley & Sons and have been translated into eight languages. Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life (Harriman House, 2022) is his first non-investing book. You can get unpublished bonus chapters by forwarding your purchase receipt to bonus@soulinthegame.net.
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