For anyone who hasn’t already, I would strongly suggest that you read/listen the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. It speaks of the “Rat Race”, where once you increase your income by a fraction, you almost immediately and subconsciously adjust your needs to absorb that increase.
I think this is one of the books that everyone over the age of 15-17 should read as it gives a crash-course on the fine art of making money.
This book, together with the minimalists’ work influenced me to change my work style and other habits and now I feel more focused, clutter free, and with significantly more €$£¥ in my pocket.
I have read this book and I would recommend as an alternative "The Richest Man In Babylon." It is more clearly a book of parables about building wealth and less about the route one person took to financial success.
I'm not saying there isn't usable advice in that book, which I have read, but in full disclosure, the book's author, Robert Kiyosaki, fictionalised most of the anecdotes contained within it.
Additionally, he operates a real estate "investing" school that advocates and instructs semi-legal, morally questionable predatory practices.
It is openly modelled after Trump University, Trump being Kiyosaki's business mentor and aspirational avatar. They have authored at least one book together.
> Additionally, he operates a real estate "investing" school that advocates and instructs semi-legal, morally questionable predatory practices.
Yeah, it's 90% trivial platitudes about "buy low, sell high" and "invest your money wisely", and then a few pages about how he actually made his money (if that part is true, anyway): Haunt foreclosure auctions to flip the houses. Skeezy.
So he says to buy low and sell high, and he made his money by buying real estate cheap and then selling it higher? I have absolutely no background on the guy, but that doesn't sound "skeezy" or even inconsistent; what am I missing?
Why is that skeezy? If the house is at a foreclosure auction, it's being sold whether he buys it or not. If he buys it, he's paying more than anyone else was willing to.
I assume anybody reading that book understands that "Rich Dad" is mostly literary device, probably loosely based on an actual figure(s) and a few key events or experiences.
Nobody remembers conversations they had word for word an hour afterward, let alone decades.
I think this is one of the books that everyone over the age of 15-17 should read as it gives a crash-course on the fine art of making money.
This book, together with the minimalists’ work influenced me to change my work style and other habits and now I feel more focused, clutter free, and with significantly more €$£¥ in my pocket.