{"id":7049937,"date":"2026-08-28T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/you-are-responsible-for-what-you-have-tamed-ep-300-the-intellectual-investor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:56:46","slug":"you-are-responsible-for-what-you-have-tamed-ep-300-the-intellectual-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049937","title":{"rendered":"You Are Responsible for What You Have Tamed &#8211; Ep 300 &#8211; The Intellectual Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-52280-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/intellectualinvestor\/300_-_You_Are_Responsible_for_What_You_Have_Tamed.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/intellectualinvestor\/300_-_You_Are_Responsible_for_What_You_Have_Tamed.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/intellectualinvestor\/300_-_You_Are_Responsible_for_What_You_Have_Tamed.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A client of mine left $100 million to his wife and two grown kids after cancer took him at 66. He was Yale-educated, second-generation American, ran the family business his Russian immigrant father started, and worked 16-hour days, seven days a week, in the basement. His son, days away from becoming a father himself, told me: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be like my father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That conversation hit me hard. As a father who runs a business, I asked myself whether I\u2019m doing the same thing to my own kids. A few days later I drove my 18-year-old son Jonah to the airport for a gap year in Israel, and he handed me a letter that referenced a passage I\u2019d once read to him about Warren Buffett wishing he\u2019d spent more time with his own children.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This essay is an excerpt from my book Soul in the Game. In it I work through what that client\u2019s son said, what Jonah wrote back, and what Tim Urban\u2019s estimate that we spend 93% of our total time with our parents before high school ends really means once you do the math on the years you have left with a five-year-old or a thirteen-year-old at home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I also sit with the harder question underneath it: when work becomes a real-life Candy Crush where money is just chips we never intend to spend, what is the \u201cmore\u201d actually costing us? My father often quoted The Little Prince: \u201cYou become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The full essay is at investor.fm.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________ \ud83d\udd17 LINKS MENTIONED: Amazon Review <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7152239\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/create-review\/?ie=UTF8&amp;asin=0857199072<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________ \ud83d\udce9 Join 100,000+ readers on Vitaliy\u2019s FREE weekly newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.fm\/sign-up\/\">https:\/\/investor.fm\/sign-up\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Vitaliy\u2019s books: Soul in the Game \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43CF73v\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/43CF73v<\/a> The Little Book of Sideways Markets \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QWTlqZ\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QWTlqZ<\/a> Active Value Investing \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3u8zn3A\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3u8zn3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf10 Follow Vitaliy: X\/Twitter \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vitaliyk\">https:\/\/x.com\/vitaliyk<\/a>LinkedIn \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katsenelson\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katsenelson\/<\/a> Instagram \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vitaliyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vitaliyk\/<\/a> Website \u2013 <a class=\"ytAttributedStringLink ytAttributedStringLinkCallToActionColor\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDlNTWsxYUE3ZFh0MTE4NGczT1YyN0FrWXdLQXxBQ3Jtc0tud05IdkNkcGprTzRLOUpuaTVydHJMUkdSdHNCOFF5VjhvS2VQRHl5UHo2emEtMjBVTU82VHVLeUkta00zY3dKSXZiemJ3NWM5MkhNTW5mQlFnbjgyOEF2bnNxbzRkd0RMMGtPaG9aNkdmR08wUndHQQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Finvestor.fm%2F&amp;v=pl7JL2mwFnw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/investor.fm\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________ WHO AM I: Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO of Investment Management Associates (IMA) and an award-winning writer. Forbes Magazine called him \u201cThe New Benjamin Graham.\u201d His work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron\u2019s, Fortune, Institutional Investor, and Foreign Policy. 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