What do you have to be grateful for? Well, that's the way I let off last month's rule breaker investing mailbag and pretty much because it was the week of Thanksgiving here in the U.S. the final week of November, so it was thematic, a way to open a podcast.

But this week, this week is in basketball terms

going strong to the hoop with gratitude.

Now, there are great reasons and benefits to gratitude which I'll mention briefly so there is reason to the rhymes but mostly I ask you to indulge me for a time

Pull up a chair and stay a while, and let us be grateful together.

Let us reflect on our world at the end of another year.

Let us rejoice in the good things that we have, for in a year that was so full of bad as

Sam Gammji once said quote but in the end it's only a passing thing this

shadow even darkness must pass a new day will come and when the sun shines it'll

shine out the clearer." And one thing is for sure gratitude helps us get there. 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.

A delight to have you join me during what is for me anyway, I bet for you to one of the busier months of the

year so thank you for sparing some time to suffer fools gladly this the

ninth of December that's when this podcast comes out typically around 4 p.m. Eastern every week

weekend and week out thanks to my producer Rick Engdow speaking of thanks that is the theme of this

week's podcast.

It's not something I probably do enough in life.

It's not something I do a lot of.

I don't have an annual practice of gratitude on this podcast.

Maybe I will going forward, but darn it,

this particular week, I wanted to give thanks and I wanted to think

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