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WHO AM I: Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO of Investment Management Associates (IMA) in 2012. Forbes Magazine called him “The New Benjamin Graham.” He’s written for publications including Financial Times, Barron’s, Institutional Investor, and Foreign Policy.
You bury the lead, Vitaliy. You point it out in your opening sentence, but fail to embellish the point. In a world where speaking your truth is in fashion (as long as it’s the acceptable version of truth), Charlie Kirk’s greatest gift was that he was “willing to listen with respect.” Not listening to fashion a rebuttal. Not listening to determine the “worthiness” of the speaker. Listening to seek understanding of the person. Recognizing his/her humanity; respecting the diversity that this living, breathing human being brings to the world. I applaud your determination to speak up with even more personal authenticity and honesty to your self-determined value set, even when it’s not popular, and your invitation for other influential voices to do the same. This will do much to assure the more introverted and less self-assured that what gets published by the Orwellian Thought Police is NOT the only way to think. But what MUST come in tandem is a rediscovery of our basic and authentic INTEREST in what other people think – unvarnished and not pre-judged. Like Charlie Kirk, you inherently have this desire to understand other ideas together with a admirable intrinsic motivation to seek knowledge from disparate thought-leaders (which is everyone that breathes; not just the elite few), but you can’t assume this of others. Humans are selfish. If one can gain one glaring insight from Scripture, this would be it. And Scripture’s antidote: Love One Another. One of the best ways to love is actually CARING about what -and why- someone thinks.