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

Aug 20, 2025

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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.

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.

Timestamps:

(00:01) – Intro

(01:44) – Put curiosity above conviction and humility above pride

(03:47) – No one enjoys being wrong, but…do enjoy having been wrong

(05:58) – The rules of an intellectually honest debate

(07:56) – Acknowledge our assumptions, acknowledge our own biases. Address the argument, don’t attack the person

(10:56) – Pain is a perfect tuner

(14:16) – Time discovers truth

(15:55) – Accept that our control only lies within

(21:45) – Negative visualization helps you realize all the great things in your life are borrowed, not owned

(24:00) – Outro

Referenced in the Show:

Soul in the Game by Vitaliy Katsenelson
Think Again by Adam Grant
Chase’s favorite Daniel Kahneman book: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Brothers Karamazov: by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Intelligent Investor: Ben Graham
Stoic Books: The Wisdom of the Stoics Boxed Set & Discipline Is Destiny: The Power
of Self-Control

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