Mental Tips, Tricks & Lifehacks, Vol. 11

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.4 • 959 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Can you quickly decide which AI companies deserve your attention—and which to skip? What do you believe that most people don’t? And is there a simple trick, learnable in one afternoon, that can delight kids (and maybe yourself) for a lifetime? This week, David returns with Volume 11 of one of our OG episodic series: Mental Tips, Tricks & Lifehacks. He shares seven small ideas that punch above their weight: from a clever $10 household fix, to a mindset shift borrowed from Kevin Kelly, to dialing down big ambitions into “little bets” that actually get done. Oh, and some recent boardgame picks! Host: David GardnerProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you decide which AI stock to look into and on which ones to take a pass?
0:07.0	What do you believe that most people don't believe?
0:10.9	And can you do this trick that apparently 25% of Americans can, but 75% cannot?
0:18.6	And it just takes one afternoon to learn. It provides you a lifetime of entertaining
0:23.2	little kids. It's worth it. It's time for the 11th episode in one of my favorite recurring
0:29.9	series on Rule Breaker Investing, and that's Mental Tips, Tricks and Life Hacks, Volume 11 this week,
0:37.1	only on Rule Breaker Investing.
0:41.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
0:50.4	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. a delight to have you joining with me this week.
0:55.5	We're going to have some fun together.
0:57.2	Let's get smarter, shall we?
0:59.8	It's the latest.
1:00.7	It's number 11 in our historical running series of mental tips, tricks, and life hacks.
1:06.2	The series started with Volume 1 on June 15, 2016.
1:11.0	The most recent was November 24.
1:13.9	I counted them up.
1:15.3	In the history of this series, I've now shared 74 mental tips, tricks, and life hacks over 10 previous episodes with pretty much no repeats.
1:24.6	Now, if you find your curiosity sparked by anything I share with you this week and you
1:29.1	want to go back and check out that series, well, www.ruelbreakerinvesting.com has a pretty great tab. It's the
1:38.1	podcast tab up top on that page. And if you click it, you'll be dropped into a page that has all of my previous
1:45.9	mental tips, tricks, and life hacks episodes listed in order, which is a lot easier than going
1:52.2	back through Apple Podcasts, Google, or Spotify and trying to locate an episodic series.
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