10 years ago, May 4th, 2016, to be exact, I launched my fourth five-stock sampler, five winners

in a thinking world. Michael Bloomberg had just given a commencement speech to the University of Michigan,

and my pal and longtime fool Morgan Houssel had excerpted in his social media feed this line from Bloomberg, and I quote,

for the first time in human history, the majority of people in the developed world are being

asked to make a living with their minds rather than their muscles. Bloomberg had said,

and so it was time for me to pick five stocks that would seem

to do well in an increasingly thinky, thinking world. Well, today we fire up the time machine

10 years later to see what actually happened through recessions, pandemics, acquisitions,

and all the surprises a decade can deliver.

We're going to score our returns against the S&P 500, then ask the only questions that matter.

What do we get right? What do we get wrong? And what can we learn from that? I've invited back

my longtime fellow rulebreaker Tim Byers to bring the goods. Some numbers,

some stories. We'll talk about the lessons you can use on your next 10-year journey. Five

winners in a thinking world 10 years later. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.

And welcome back to rule breaker investing. A delight to have you with me for this episode of

10 years later, which we're about to get into. But before we do, I want to

mention next week's podcast. It's, it's my birthday. It's my annual birthday present from you to me.

It's what you have learned from David Gardner. I've done this every year, the last several.

If there's something that you've learned

from me from this podcast, from my book, from our business The Motley Fool, or any random board

game suggestion I may have given you. Whatever you may have learned from me, I would love to hear

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