October 2020 was steeped in COVID negativity.

Sure the stock market was doing pretty well, but our world was not.

Many lost due to COVID past, with many more threatened by COVID future numbers surging in different places

around our globe. Well it was in this milieu that we welcomed and got to know

Shirsad Shamin.

And if you did not get to hear that first podcast,

entitled Positive Intelligence was Shir Zad Shamin,

well the date was October 21st, 2020.

So definitely on Spotify or Apple iTunes or Google Play go directly

back to that podcast. Do not Pasco and do not collect $200 because in that episode,

you will hear the amazing story of Shur Zad Shamine,

a little boy born into the toughest of circumstances

in Iran, and how he matriculated eventually

to Stanford Business School, had an epiphany, and turned his life's

work into making you and me more intelligent.

Not necessarily more cerebrally intelligent or emotionally intelligent though perhaps those two nope more positively intelligent more intelligent, more able to rebound from defeats or disappointments, more able to see the positives

in yourself and in your friends and in life, and how transformative that was for him and can be for you and for me.

Well, following that October podcast, I got numerous notes

to the Rule Breaker Investing Mailbag saying, wow,

that really changed, improved how I think about things.

So for many a rule breaker, Sheirsad in his teachings, break the rules and are an eye-opener and for me also. But one thing I hadn't yet done

then was read his book. I was reacting to things I'd read on the web but not reacting

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