Gaurav Kapadia: belief

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…Now, there’s something in Jain philosophy that emphasizes the importance of multiple perspectives. Do you think you got any of that from your upbringing? I don’t think I got a lot of it — that specific thing — from Jainism, but I got a lot of that from my mother. My mother — I guess now that I think about it, I’m a lot like her, but she would be very interested in being an expert in a variety of fields just because she thought it would make her a more complete person. She started as a data scientist. When she retired, she started a jewelry company. From that, she actually moved to China when she was, I think, 68 years old. She moved to a random city in China without telling us and went to art school there. There’s a lot of that that runs through my veins. Maybe she got it from her Jainism and her Jain upbringing, but I think that’s where I got it from. To go back to this finance idea of the trade you didn’t make, what’s an example of an artist who has a good reputation, who fits the criteria where you collect, but you haven’t bought a work from that artist? And how do you think about why you haven’t?…

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