My Interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy, Author of What Works on Wall Street

Today I’m going to share with you an interview I did with Jim O’Shaughnessy on his podcast Infinite Loops. 

Jim is a Wall Street legend and author of investment classic What Works on Wall Street.

More importantly, he is the person I aspire to be when I grow up. As you’ll see from the interview, Jim is as wise as he is kind and fun. 

Jim and I seem to share a brain (we were almost finishing each others’ sentences). We talk about the ways that creativity connects the conscious and unconscious mind, the power of reframing and developing a thick skin, and the joys of classical music. We also dive into my youth in Soviet Russia, and how it’s affected me today.

We ran out of time in this interview, and didn’t get the chance (yet) to talk about investing. We’ll record a second session in a few months, so stay tuned.

I hope you enjoy it!

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 You can get unpublished bonus chapters by forwarding your purchase receipt to bonus@soulinthegame.net.

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