Once you get to the end of things, it gives you a perspective you never could have had because you

needed to get to the end of the story in order to see what happened and then to reflect more knowingly

on what went before. That's what happens for me every year right around this time. We made it to the

end of another year, 24. You can look back on it now. You saw all that happened, all the good, all the bad,

all the fair to Midland. And so we now have the privilege of perspective, what you simply couldn't have

had about 2024, 52 weeks ago. We can now all of us see the whole thing. Zooming out one level, we can now

engage in what I call portfolio level thinking. So here we are at the end of it all,

2024. This is the last rule breaker investing podcast of this year. Next week's episode appears,

as always, Wednesday, 4 p.m. But next Wednesday is

January 1st, 2025. So here's my question for you. What three lessons will you take away from

24, personally, professionally, culturally? And with whom will you share those three lessons? Here at the end of it,

2024, we will close things out as we do every month at this time. It's your mailback,

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, and for those who celebrate Merry Christmas,

happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanza, I know I'm missing some others.

It is a special time of the year for so many of us us for a motley number of reasons. Of course, religious

celebrations often come to mind, but it's also the end of a year and we're getting ready for

the start of a new year. It is a momentous time. And I was listening back to my mailbag last year at

this time. And I said, and I quote, and maybe just maybe in 2024, the stock market

will do as well as it did this year, where it was a nice year of bounceback. The S&P 500 was up 20%

plus. I said, I'll take that every year last year and concluded by saying, and hey, I think the

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