Once a year, well, it happens to you too. You have a birthday. That time of the year, every year for me is mid-May. We've had a

tradition with this podcast, which is that you give me a gift, which you did once again this month.

Thank you so much. You give me a gift in the form of notes, emails, tweets, sharing what you've learned from this podcast.

And then I get to organize those thoughts and give a gift back.

A concise summary of the cardinal points made, the most frequently recurring points that you make,

which really, in a way, summarize rule breaker investing, especially for new listeners. Well, this series is entitled

What You Have Learned from David Gardner here in 2025. Well, it's volume six. What You've

Learned from me. Thanks for the birthday present. 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. Yep, it's my birthday this week. As I mentioned at the top,

one of my favorite birthday presents comes in the form of listeners reaching out directly to share

what you've learned from me,

what you've learned from this podcast.

Now, I'm a little bit self-conscious entitling this episode,

What Have You Learned from David Gardner?

Because I'm actually the first to make jokes, especially about professional athletes

when they refer to themselves in the third person.

Things like, you know,

what's ahead for Michael Jordan? The journalist asks, and then Michael says something like,

well, Michael Jordan's thinking a lot about his future, that sort of thing. Often it seems like

the sports journalists are almost setting up the athletes to use third person by asking them

questions directly in the third person themselves. Anyway, what have you learned from David Gardner?

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