Do you believe it in an afterlife?

Most people do.

But what it is, how that afterlife might work,

is a real mystery.

In 2009, Stanford Neuroscientist David Eagleman published a remarkable book,

Some S-U-M-40 short chapters, two to five pages each,

40 tales from the afterlives. Now to be clear David was not advocating an

afterlife for or against as he'll tell you it was a work of creative fiction and

I'm pretty sure though we could ask him that not a single

one of his 40 stories perfectly describes his own view of the afterlife

but rather as a mental exercise a brilliantly creative one of that, David spins tales of many different types

or possibilities of after-lives, and I would say in so doing, can help us lead a better life.

It's authors in August and one of the more mind-blowing authors

and mind-blowing books you'll ever come across, strap in some. 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.

Before I welcome our author onto the podcast this week,

I want to share with you just one of the 40 tales of the after lives from David

Eagleman's book Some.

So think of it as a sampler.

If you haven't previously come across the book, this gives you a taste. Chapter 3 is entitled

Circle of Friends. When you die you feel as though there were some subtle change

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