What do you have to be grateful for?

I'll pull up a chair and stay a while.

Let's be grateful together this week.

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

Let us rejoice in the good things that we have.

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 you to one of the busier months of the year

so thank you for sparing some time to suffer fools gladly

speaking of thanks well that's the theme of this week's podcast near the end of another year.

I want to think together from a position of gratefulness, gratitude, the power of that.

I started this annual series a couple years back

after having a talk with my son Gabe.

Gabe is a well-read young lad at the age of 26, and one of the books he's had on his shelf was

Thanks how the new science of gratitude can make you happier. It's by Robert

Emmons E-M-M-O-N-S. This book originally came out, I believe, in 2007. I still haven't read it, but my son, Gabe, did read it, and while I was talking

about it with him, he said the thesis of the book is the general research on just how a bit of gratitude every day

is one of the few things that can increase our baseline level of happiness. Now maybe you dear listener have a practice of gratitude. Maybe you

say a prayer each morning or have a meditation or gratitude can take many

different forms. Maybe you have a systematic regular process and if you do,

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