Mar 10, 2010 09:11 PM
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki & Sharon Lechter
Book 19
Issued on: Feb. 24th, 2010
Returned: March 10th, 2010
It took me reallll long to read this one coz of the shifting… also… personally the book doesn’t impress me much. It does, but not word to word.:)
Reason being, it used lot of technical words like investment, deals, mortgage, finance, loans, etc. Not that I’m totally dummy on it, but coz it’s not what I look for when I want to read something. I’m still the… use 100 chocolates to teach counting perfectly… kinds. I hope you got what I mean. In short, I like difficult things explained in easy way.
So… if we can go back to the book n shift from my personal view point…
The basic idea of the book would be…
It starts with the little boy Robert whose real dad is extremely educated but ends up being poor and struggling, inspite of doing lot of hardwork and attaining decent promotions his field gave.
One day, his POOR DAD suggests him to consult Mike’s dad whom he hears from bank people to be a prudent guy. The reason being: Robert n Mike wanted to be rich n Robert’s dad though Mike’s dad was a better person to assist in that matter.
Mike’s dad, whom the author calls his RICH DAD, helps them through a different kind of learning pattern. He did not give study material, nor did tell them directly he got the answers from the little boys. He just guided them with his unique style of education which according to him was a real education.
He taught them 6 rules to be rich which are explained in most of the book. He stressed on the fact that formal education a person attains is not adequate to be rich. For being rich, one has to have Financial Intelligence.
I would say, a person from this field, esp. from the places he has mentioned, will benefit more from the book. The book is full of examples of the author himself. This in a way is good, coz a person who is rich and has become that rich from following a pattern should only be giving piece of advice to others.
If the book had catered to various fields, it would have been even more interesting. I somehow agree to some extent what the author mentioned himself in the book, that he is best-SELLER not best-WRITER. Not to ignore certain points, which I really liked in the book which are damn-right straight n true. Author asks the reader to follow his ways ONLY if they are ready to take risks n face adversities as well coz the idea is not fool-proof. One falls n learns is the way to growing rich as per the authors.
