Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Everyone listening, I think, is somewhat interested in what's going on in China.

Your lessons that you shared were so interesting.

And I'd love you to just share some of the highlights from that trip and what you learned traipsing around, studying robotics, studying AI, everything else that you did.

What were your major takeaways from that trip?

Which company visit was the most illustrative of these big lessons?

What was the company visit that looking back on the trip taught you the most?

Obviously, there's tons of understanding about what the state of China wants and is trying to accomplish.

But if you add up all your conversations with all the people that you met across the week, how would you sum up what the people that you met and interacted with wanted?

And what was their attitude towards us?

It seems increasingly adversarial from our direction to them, skeptical, worried about it, etc.

But just adding up your conversation, what was your felt sense of what the people wanted and were trying to accomplish and felt about the U.S.

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I'd love to rewind the clock a little bit.

I mostly talk to investors on the show.

I rarely have talked to some of the world's great traders through history.

At a point in your career, you were probably the greatest active trader or one of them, certainly the best in your market.

I'd love you to describe what it takes to be truly excellent at that specific discipline.

If you think back on the time, I'm curious when you think it was that you were at the peak of your powers.

I'd love you to just take us behind the scenes a little bit of what it took for you personally to

to get to that stage since I talked to so much fewer of people that have done this?