If you are going to be open to reading sound financial advice from a best-selling author who retired at age 47, then I hope you'll read on. This book by Robert Kiyosaki is written for you. He does not talk down to his readers as if they are stupid or to blame for their financial challenges for he blames the problem squarely on our antiquated school system. Not only does that system only prepare students to get a good job where one works for the boss, government and the bank for the rest of one's life, but the system is also taught at home.
Kiyosaki describes his childhood when he first learned there was another way to be taught which would let him become rich by making money work for him instead. His own father was of the old school, a teacher who had a great education and yet was poor. His friend Mike had a rich father, though, who owned several businesses and yet had never gone to high school. He notes that this is the primary reason school is seen as boring and unnecessary by many students who drop out or fool around in school. They know there's an easier and better way to make it in life, just by looking at sports stars and computer geeks, for example.
How does the author learn from his "rich dad"?.
He and his friend go to work for Mike's father after school in one of his businesses, cleaning the place up for only pennies a week (a dime an hour to be exact!). Of course, they demand a raise or threaten to quit, but rich dad explains that he has been teaching them how to be successful in life as they requested. They now must work for free! In a few weeks, he tempts them with a quarter an hour up to five dollars an hour, but, as the author puts it, "the part of my soul that was weak and needy was silenced. The part of me that had no price took over." Now they understand the uselessness of working like a slave for money and that they need to get angry so they're not pushed around by life.
