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🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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After last year's Portrait of the Investor as a Young Man, David goes even further back, seeking insights and investing lessons from his early youth. So gather back around the campfire for a few stories and lessons from these formative years. We look back to days of school projects, theater companies, baseball characters and mishaps abroad. Through it all, we learn that as we stumble through this human experiment, character counts, and optimism is justified.
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0:19.1 | It's the Rulebreaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner. |
0:27.0 | Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. |
0:31.0 | I'm taping on the final day of January, January 31st, 2017. The first |
0:37.5 | thing I want to note, this is just a personal side note. Each of the last several |
0:41.5 | years January has been an alcohol free month for me. |
0:45.0 | Now I'm somebody who enjoys a glass of wine with every supper. |
0:49.0 | It seems so for a solid 31 days every year, it hurts a little bit and that's going to be ending. So you can |
0:54.5 | picture me if you like, you're hearing this the next day. I was up at midnight and I was |
0:58.8 | having a glass of red wine at 1201. All right, this is going to stay pretty personal this week. |
1:04.0 | It's going to be fairly autobiographical. |
1:07.0 | We are going to continue our series of Campfire Stories. |
1:11.0 | This is Camp Fire Stories, 2. Now, history will show that our first Camp Fire |
1:16.8 | Stories, Volume 1, here at Rule Breaker Investing, the podcast, was on June 1st of 2016 and if you didn't get a chance to hear that or you're a |
1:26.4 | new listener I of course endorse your going back and re-listening to Camp Fire Stories |
1:30.9 | Volume 1 having a fire going in your hearth is a great idea |
1:34.8 | as you listen to Camp Fire Stories Volume 1, |
1:36.9 | where I talk about my experience with the CNBC hostess |
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