How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets

You're listening to the Michael Shermer Show. Give us a little bit of background. What's your story? How'd you get into writing about um You know, the financial markets and all that.

It's a very unlikely thing for me to have ended up doing, because as you said, I I I read English literature at Oxford and I came out of Oxford really just wanting to be a famous novelist, or maybe if I couldn't hack it as a novelist, I'd be a screenwriter. Uh, you know, the the second best, the default option, or maybe third best. Pretty much. Or I'd end up writing long narrative features for magazines like The New Yorker and the like. And um

And so I did do a lot of writing for magazines like The New Yorker and, you know, The Spectator. I would write book reviews and the like. And so I was kind of pretentious and figured I would be, you know, this great English man of letters. But then I had this unexpected thing happen to me around my mid-twenties, where I just fell in love with the stock market. And um partly it was because you could you could basically use your brain to get rich without having to do anything too arduous.

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