“Think about your most embarrassing moment. Then multiply it many times. That’s what it feels like when your clients are losing money.” The latter is a paraphrase of Shelwyn Weston, a senior wealth manager at Goldman Sachs back in 1998. She was speaking to a class of new associates that I was part of, and what she said stays with me to this day.
It came to mind while reading Anya Gillinson’s beautifully written and remarkable new memoir, Dreaming in Russian. Gillinson’s life story is largely about her time in the United States, after she, her mother, and sister Liana exited the defunct Soviet Union. Writing about immigration itself, as in trying to make it in a new country, Gillinson observes that it is “a humiliating trial that exposes your most unflattering characteristics and your deepest weakness.”
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