What do you have to be grateful for?

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

Let's 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 Fool co-founder, David Gardner.

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. It's a delight to have you join me during what is for many of us,

one of the busiest months of the year. So thank you for taking the time to suffer fools gladly. This week's theme is

gratitude. Nearing the year's end, I do this every year. I want to reflect on its power. This annual

series began in 2020 after a conversation with my son Gabe, who shared insights from the book

Thanks by Robert Emmons.

The book highlights how cultivating daily gratitude can measurably increase our happiness.

By as much as 25%, that's above the baseline that a lot of psychologists think you can't really move your own baseline that much,

as much as 25% by cultivating a daily gratitude practice and sustaining that over months.

Even simple practices like keeping a gratitude journal for three weeks, which admittedly I've

never done, but it can improve your sleep and your energy.

Emmons' work weaves science with wisdom from philosophers, theologians, and novelists.

He emphasizes that gratitude is essential for a full life.

One line from the book's introduction resonates with me.

Here it is.

It is gratitude that enables us to be fully human.

So to my son, Gabe, I say, thank you for sharing this. You know, the great 20th century

humanitarian physician theologian, and yeah, he won the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Schweitzer

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