It's not often that I come up with a new list of six rule breaker principles.

The first was published in 1998 and it was of course the six rule breaker company traits.

The six traits that we look for in stocks that cause us to recommend and buy the

companies that we do. Well 23 years later I'm still using the very same list of

six traits as any Rule Breaker member knows as any Rule Breaker

Investing Podcast listener of any vintage will recognize and why? Well they work.

Years later I decided to come up with a second list of rule breaker

principles. This time it was the six habits of the rule breaker investor.

These were not about the companies were buying. That was the first list. These were about you and your behaviors.

I came to recognize that even if someone has a great list of stocks to buy,

if they don't properly know how to invest, how to treat

a winning stock, our good advice could end up as somebody else's bad outcome.

So the six habits of the rule breaker investor

were born, and that was the second list.

Years later again, well, here we are.

And I got it in my head that there's another set of six

rule breaker principles that can help the individual investor. It's probably for

most people the biggest gap in their learning and so I think it's the most

relevant new thing that I can bring you now after the six traits of rule

breaker stocks and the six habits rule breaker investors.

These aren't about your stocks,

and they aren't about you.

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