Tinker, Taylor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.

Coming through mailbag submissions this month I found a common chord. That usually doesn't happen. Our monthly mailbag

episodes are almost invariably motley with one person's story and others

question, a poem from someone else's suggestion disconnected from the next it's part of the

charm of these for me anyway they are motley but combing through 32 pages of

mailbag submissions this month I saw a common chord and I wanted that chord to

ring out and so the way I plan to make that happen is to silence everything

else so no Twitter hot takes know how many stocks should I have in my portfolio, no, is the market

overvalued? Nope, not this month. This month, we're just going to focus on the common

cord I saw and that chord is stories.

This mailbag is entirely dedicated to hearing from you and your stories.

It'll be very personal for the seven fellow fools who wrote in and will be featured,

but for the 100,000 plus rest of us it's going to be an opportunity to learn and to grow because I think that's what great stories do. The great stories inspire us.

They may challenge us and they are didactic, they teach.

So are you ready to listen?

Do you have a warm or cold drink depending on your hemisphere?

Are you ready to empathize and learn from the infinite possibilities

and backstories of others?

Tinker, Taylor, soldiers, sailor, rich men, poor man, beggar man,

thief, except no thieves allowed this week. Stories of seven people who you probably won't ever meet but who are

all bound together by the same thing that binds you and me and that's a love of

the game of investing, a desire toward self-betterment, and a willingness to call ourselves fools

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