GREAT INVESTORS DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEIR EMOTIONS URGE THEM TO DO.
F ERIC GREITENS WERE your commanding officer, you’d have to listen to him—the military is tough like that. Of course, he’s not your CO, but you should listen to him anyhow because he’s a worthy superior in every way. A former Navy SEAL and commander of an al Qaeda–targeting cell, he’s a also a boxing champion, a taekwondo second dan, and a sub-3-hour marathoner who bench-presses 130 kilogrammes. That’s not all. Greitens is also a Rhodes scholar who got a full academic scholarship to Duke. And, most obnoxiously, he’s not obnoxious, either. In fact, when he returned from Iraq with a Purple Heart, he used his combat pay to found a charity,
