Book 1: Learn Vitaliy’s Art of a Meaningful Life

Written By Chase Taylor
“No one enjoys being wrong. But I do enjoy having been wrong. This means I am now less wrong, now than I was before. This means I have learned something.”

Welcome Back Listeners,

This is hopefully the first of many book episodes. These will feature investing books, history books, and any book I deem worthy of highlighting. The first book episode is on Vitaliy Katsenelson’s great Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life. Vataliy is an investor so there is some of that in the book but there is also a beautiful primer on Stoicism I loved and a lot of other passages that made me feel like he was a brother from another mother. I think the timestamp titles Courtney chose (below) for the episode make it clear how great this book is so I hope you will give me thoughts a listen.

·      Put curiosity above conviction and humility above pride

·      No one enjoys being wrong, but…do enjoy having been wrong

·      The rules of an intellectually honest debate

·      Pain is a perfect tuner

·      Time discovers truth

·      Accept that our control only lies within

·      Negative visualization helps you realize all the great things in your life are borrowed, not owned 

—Cheers,

Chase

“ After all, pain without purpose is just meaningless suffering.”

LISTEN HERE | WATCH HERE | THE TRANSCRIPT

Chase sits down with book in hand to discuss some of the great insights in Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life by Vitaliy Katsenelson. Consider this your audio CliffsNotes with anecdotes from the author and from Chase’s experiences with stoicism, challenging your own market theses, and why we should treat everything in our life as if it’s on borrowed time.

Referenced in the Show:

“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
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