It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing, season's greetings to you, whoever you are, wherever you are,

whatever you believe, and a foolish new year, I hope, in the year ahead.

Well, I mentioned last week that I was going to do something simple and well special just

in the sense that it's outside of our normal format not that we really have one in the

rule-baker investing podcast but this will only make us slightly more motley.

What I want to do is just share with you just a short read of one of my favorite columns that I've

written in the last 10 years or so.

I first wrote this on November 19th of 2010 and I'm going to paraphrase it slightly

because it was written at the time for Motley Full Stock Advisor for my members and I know I have

a lot of them listening to me today and maybe you'll remember this column probably not I don't think people really remember what I write but five years ago

Maybe echoes of familiarity will will come through and I'm going to share this column then I'm going to share this column. And then I'm going to share a, this is kind of fun, a community-generated Haiku that reacted and

rift a little bit on this column.

And that's all we're doing this week.

That's our podcast this week. And you know, that's all we're doing this week. That's our podcast this week.

And you know this week, this week might be one for the friends and family as well.

So maybe maybe play this one again in the car or perhaps over a crackling fire with hot apple cider in your hands.

And this column is entitled,

Why We Invest.

Here it goes.

My favorite episode of my favorite miniseries, Band of Brothers, is called

Why We Fight. Without spoiling the story for those who haven't seen it, and by the way, do such people exist?

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