And that's what I've been trying to say, especially through my podcast over the last year.

I think a lot of us are going to look back at some of the prices we paid in the spring

in the summer and go, wow, I got a pretty good price on that stock that day.

And yet, importantly, it didn't feel good at all to pick it.

I'm Chris Hill, and that's David Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool and host of the

Rulebreaker Investing Podcast.

I caught up with him because 2022 has been a rough one for stocks in general and certainly

for rule-breaking companies.

We talked about two books that can help your investing mindset, what we can learn from

zoomed videos, short, strange trip, and what David is especially curious about right now.

Let's start with doing something that I know is not your favorite exercise, but it's

looking backwards because the first half of this year was the roughest first half of

the calendar year for investors that we've had in decades.

And it was particularly tough on growth stocks, rule-breaker stocks.

And I'm curious if there was any point where you thought to yourself, you know what, the

thesis on this company might be broken.

Or did you just view it as, look, we haven't had a pullback like this in some time.

Maybe we were overdue.

And as we always have in the past, as investors, we'll get through this as well.

Wow, well, I would say all the above.

Let's just pull it apart for a sec.

I would say first of all that I'm always investing.

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