Gratitude: 2025

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the final months of 2025 ebb away, it is time once again to pause, reflect, and openly acknowledge the gratitude we feel. From great companies that make great stocks possible, to the unifiers who build bridges instead of walls, to the quiet power of candles and the people who share their flame — this episode celebrates them all. David even offers five simple ways you can build a bridge in your own life this week. This week’s podcast is an expression of thankfulness for what inspires us, what drives us, and what reminds us why we invest. Let’s feel grateful together. Companies mentioned: AAPL, CMG, CRM, SHOP Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: www.fool.com/breakfastnews Order David's Rule Breaker Investing book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you have to be grateful for?
0:02.4	Pull up a chair and stay a while.
0:03.9	Let's be grateful together this week.
0:06.7	Let us reflect on our world at the end of another year.
0:11.0	Let us rejoice in the good things that we have.
0:14.4	Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:18.8	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder, David Gardner.
0:26.3	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:28.4	A delight to have you join me during what is for me anyway.
0:32.4	I bet for you, too.
0:34.2	One of the busier months of the year.
0:36.8	So thank you for sparing some time to suffer, fools gladly.
0:41.9	Speaking of thanks, well, that's the theme of this week's podcast. Near the end of another year,
0:47.0	I want to think together from a position of gratefulness, gratitude, and the power of that.
0:55.8	I started this five years ago after having a talk with my son, Gabe.
1:00.0	He had just read the book, Thanks,
1:02.1	how the new science of gratitude can make you happier by Robert Emmons.
1:06.7	He said the thesis of the book centers on research that determined
1:10.0	how just a bit of gratitude
1:12.4	every day can increase our baseline level of happiness. Now, maybe you, dear listener,
1:20.0	have a practice of gratitude. Maybe you say a prayer each morning or have a meditation or,
1:25.9	well, gratitude can take many different forms.
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