January 2025 Mailbag: Investing as a Game

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How do you get kids not just thinking about investing, but actually doing it? One Foolish father shares a brilliant approach—turning investing into a game with real-world stakes, and in the process, teaching lifelong lessons about money, patience, and ownership. Plus, we talk incentives, engagement, and Rule Breaker stocks that seem “boring” but have quietly built fortunes. It’s a Mailbag filled with insights for investors of all ages—only on this week’s Rule Breaker Investing!

Host: David Gardner
Producer: Heather Horton
Companies Mentioned: CMG, CPRT, NFLX, SPOT, TREX, TSLA

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0:00.0	How do you get kids started investing? Not just thinking about it, not just talk, started.
0:07.3	One of the great notes I've ever received on the topic is my focus this week. And if it's a note I
0:13.8	received, that must mean it's the final Wednesday of the month. It's your mailbag, only on this
0:20.4	week's Rule Breaker Investing. It's the Rule
0:24.9	Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder, David Gardner. Welcome back to Rule
0:33.0	Breaker Investing. What a fantastic podcast that was last week. Three Fools with Morgan Houssel and
0:39.7	Randy Zuckerberg. I'm still basking in the glow of it. I may comment on it once or twice more this
0:45.6	week, but if you didn't get a chance to listen, I completely recommend the three stories that we
0:51.2	tell together that educate, the three that amuse, and the three that
0:55.5	enrich. It is the final Wednesday of the month, so I tend to start this podcast each month,
1:01.1	lo these many years by looking back on the month that was for this podcast. So this is the
1:05.7	fifth Wednesday of this month. That doesn't happen every month, but we started on January 1st of this year with Blast from the past, Volume 10, a month. That doesn't happen every month, but we started on January 1st of this year with
1:12.2	blast from the past, volume 10. Among other things, I revisited the moment that I first saw the
1:17.8	secret to building wealth, finding excellence and holding it. I was looking at a 25-year-old
1:24.0	brokerage statement from my uncle, and I realized the transformative power of investing,
1:30.3	seeing stocks soar from single digits to triple digits over decades.
1:35.3	If you didn't get a chance to hear that, you might enjoy it.
1:38.3	The second week, January 8th, it was great quotes, volume 20, build yourself a great story,
1:43.2	rocking some thinkers like Jeff Bezos,
1:46.4	and I was quoting Confucius, exploring how our choices and our perspectives shape the narratives
1:52.1	we live by in investing in business and in life. And then two weeks ago, Jamie Stagmire,
1:58.7	privilege of being joined by one of the great game publishers and game designers of our time.
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