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it's the rule breaker investing podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

As I mentioned last week, this week we are devoting our time to mental tips and tricks.

This is the second in an occasional series, like some of my other series, so this is volume two. You can go back some months hence, find it on

Spotify, iTunes, etc. You'll see our first mental tips and tricks if you missed it.

These are additive. I'm not going to go back over any of those and in fact I've got some good

suggestions from some of our rulebreaker investing listeners to add in as well and we've also

thrown in the life hack wrinkle so now officially this series

going forward is mental tips and tricks and life hacks and I've got seven for you

this time round so let's without further ado bring it on. Number one and number

one is the two minute rule. Now if you are a devotee as I know some of you are to David Allen and his work through his

Getting Things Done approach to life. It started with his book written about 15

years ago called Getting Things Done. David Allen, one of those productivity gurus

with sort of a Silicon Valley vibe to him.

So I've never read books like Seven Habits

of Highly Effective People or the One Minute Manager or those kinds of things I know some of you have and no doubt have learned some important things from those.

I was a highly disorganized youth and for me I'm going to persist my youth into my early 30s.

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