What makes you normal or not in your society?

Is there a normal?

And if there is one, what makes it so?

Well, a rule-breaking renegade group of academics,

adventurers, researchers, and authors began to redefine these

things a century ago and the world has never been the same. In fact, despite our

past and present troubles, the world is clearly today, to me anyway,

a lot fairer, a lot more compassionate,

and a lot more tolerant than any time in recorded history.

And I think a lot of that has to do with Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Zorniel Hurston, and their ilk. Franz Boas, were you like me unaware of that name? Well, I was at least, having never taken any courses in anthropology in my university days and

pretty much being in the dark ever since.

If Franz Bois is a name you do not yet recognize dear listeners and fellow fools,

you will come away about an hour from now with a much deeper understanding of how rule

breaking and rule breakers really do open our eyes with the risks that they take, challenge our preconceived

notions and yes leave the world, the campfire, much better off than when they first showed up.

And our new friend, author Charles King, is here to help us learn his book,

Gods of the Upper Air, our focus only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. A delight to have you with us this week. It is

authors in August and earlier this month I featured Shirzad Shamin and his book Positive Intelligence and then last week

we got to meet Michael Bange Stagner and his book do more great work both of those

sort of executive coach types coaching you and me how to see things more positively

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