Quicklet - Rich Dad, Poor Dad

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Quicklets: Learn more. Read Less. Rich Dad, Poor Dad has sold over 26 million copies and has appeared on the best-seller lists in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Businessweek and The New York Times. The bookhas been translated into 51 languages and won an Audie award in 2001. Apparently, everybody wants to be a rich dad. The enormous success of the book led Kiyosaki to turn Rich Dad, Poor Dad into a series. There are 11 other books in the series, including a few books geared for teens to teach financial intelligence at an early age. Kiyosaki cites the lack of financial education in schools as a major problem in North America. This shortcoming in the American school system is part of what inspired him to write the Rich Dad series. Consider it the "How to Get Rich: 101" class you never got in grade school. The book has also inspired a series of "Rich Dad" workshops and financial coaching programs across the United States. BOOK EXCERPT From the Introduction by Noelle Duncan: Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Is Poverty a Choice? One of the central ideas in Rich Dad, Poor Dad is that people choose to be poor. That means that the 46.2 million people in the United States living in poverty choose to live that way every day. As you can imagine, this is a contentious claim. There are some situations in which, perhaps, some people might choose to be poor for instance, a young person from an upper-middle class background chooses to sell their art for a living rather than pursue a career in investment banking. However, this seems like less of a decision to be poor and more of a decision of how to spend ones time and energy. It also seems to be more of a question of how society values labor differently (e.g. investment banking is seen as more important and therefore more lucrative and rewarded than creating art) than of whether or not we choose to be poor/rich. Author Robert Kiyosaki doesnt acknowledge that there could be larger systemic and societal reasons why some people are poor and others are not. ...To be continued! Quicklets: Learn more. Read Less. CHAPTER OUTLINE Introduction "Rich Dad, Poor Dad": Is Poverty a Choice? Robert Kiyosaki, a Financial Guru Who Can Make You Rich About "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" Overall Summary for "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki ...and much more Chapter Summaries "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" Summary, Introduction: There is a Need "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" Summary, Chapter 1: Rich Dad, Poor Dad "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" Summary, Chapter 2: The Rich Don’t Work for Money "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" Summary, Chapter 3: Why Teach Financial Literacy? ...and much more Additional Reading Related Online Content for "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki Trivia for "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki Quicklet on Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (Book Summary) Review: Useless - This was a waste of $2.99 and half of my evening yesterday. I was looking for something more in line with a decent summary of the book's points (what you'd expect with a name like "quicklet"). This was an opinion piece from the first two sentences, and the majority of what the author did was pick out points that would support her opinion. Half of the booklet was a series of one-paragraph summaries of other authors' reviews and various trivia and other barely related tidbits. It is marketed as a "review," so the author is of course within her right to provide her opinion but it didn't help me one iota to read an entire 50-page piece of her supporting her negative opinion (actually less than 25 pages of actual content; the rest was other reviews). A "quicklet" to me should be a shorter summary of the book so you can get the main ideas and decide if you'd like to invest your time in the longer book. Hyperlink should decide if they want Quicklets to be quick summaries or reviews. They're not the same thing.