Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2016-09-27
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Jason Zweig: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #03
Jason Zweig – The Power of Serendipity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.03]
In this episode, Patrick and Jason Zweig reflect on investing, financial advice, books, and life in general. The method for living discussed in the last 30 minutes will be useful for everyone.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended The Devil's Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig. Jason Zweig recommended What Do YOU Care what Other People Think? by Richard Phillips Feynman and others, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman, and The Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne, and discussed Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham, and The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Devil's Financial Dictionary
Recommended“author of many great books, including the recent Devil's Financial Dictionary, which everyone should own.”
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What Do YOU Care what Other People Think?
Recommended“And a couple of my favorites are "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" And… Sums up his life.”
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Recommended“And surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman. Although, really, you can open any of those books, almost any page, and find something wonderful.”
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Life and Fate
Recommended“The famous one is Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. And the one that should be famous is Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, who was a phenomenal Russian writer in the first half of the 20th century, which is just this amazing, brilliant, gorgeous, disturbing, frightening book.”
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Anna Karenina
Discussed“The famous one is Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. And the one that should be famous is Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, who was a phenomenal Russian writer in the first half of the 20th century, which is just this amazing, brilliant, gorgeous, disturbing, frightening book.”
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The intelligent investor
Discussed“And he said, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. And I said, yes. And he said, well, do you want to think about it? And I said, no.”
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The Luck Factor
Recommended“And actually, let me mention one related thing, Patrick, which is in, I don't know, 10 or 15 years ago, I read a very wonderful, although it's light, but it's a really wonderful book by a British psychologist named Richard Wiseman. Wiseman. And I forget the title of the book. It has the word luck in it.”
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The Devil's Dictionary
Discussed“So here's one definition. Potential conflict of interest. Noun. An actual conflict of interest. And so, I mean, I hope that definitions like that are actually useful to people because that bit of cynicism, which I've modeled after Ambrose Bierce, who wrote the original Devil's Dictionary, is exactly what the financial services industry needs.”
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Recommended“The book that I think I would most miss if I had never read it is probably the essays of Michel de Montaigne, Michel de Montaigne, the 16th century French writer. It's not for everybody. I mean, it's a pretty literary choice, but he was a phenomenal writer and thinker.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“And it could be the intelligent investor or kind of a pure play like your money and your brain, or your most recent one, which is probably my favorite, the Devil's Dictionary. Devil's Financial Dictionary, I should say.”
“And it could be the intelligent investor or kind of a pure play like your money and your brain, or your most recent one, which is probably my favorite, the Devil's Dictionary. Devil's Financial Dictionary, I should say.”