Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education
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One of his best!,
Having read a lot of Robert Kiyosaki’s books, I have to say this is one of his best! People who have read his books will find more of the same but this time with more detail that has been so sadly lacking in previous books. Put together in an easy to follow format this book removes a lot of the anecdotes from previous books and gives you the information straight up. Don’t get me wrong Robert still frames things with references to his past and in gaining his own financial education – but there is much less of it and this book is to the point. A must buy for Rich Dad fans!
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|Right message, wrong delivery,
I’ve read several of Robert Kiyosaki’s books and this one is a clear summary with more detail of all the rest. I’m completely sold on the message, when I first read Rich Dad Poor Dad 10 years ago, it was like he was articulating what I already believed about money and financial freedom.
However, even though the message is spot on, and it really gets across the mindset that people need to become financially free, one issue I have with this book and all his others is the way its written. I would hate to be one of Robert’s friends or family, as the way he refers to them sometimes is like they’re dumbasses who failed where he succeeded. He talks very arrogantly about how himself and all the rich are so much smarter than all the “monkeys” out there, how it makes him “sick” when people ask him to lunch to “pick his brains” and keeps highlighting it not cool to brag, but writes in a way which does come across like that.
Also, he tries to paint a picture of himself as altruistic, he invests in oil but because he cares about the environment he takes some of those profits and invests in green energy, how much we don’t know, but somehow he tries to justify that he’s doing it for the good of the planet and not to make lots of money. A lot of the altruistic points he weaves into the book seem a little half hearted, and more for PR, when he spends so much time in the book talking about how much money he plans to make (and I remember in his last book I read he set the goal of becoming a billionaire before he died) – what’s more important? Being a billionaire or making the world a better place? With this book and previous ones it’s unclear to say for sure which values are more important to him, and now that he’s associated himself with Donald Trump, if you can tell a lot about a person by the type of people they hang around with, I’d suspect the altruistic points he tries to make are more for PR than genuine values, just like the Trump. Its OK to just want to be rich, but in order to avoid too much critism it appears Robert is trying to convince everyone he’s not just interested in money, which if he isn’t, is done very poorly.
And that unfortunately for me is the issue I have with this book and all his previous ones, you can’t get people to listen to your message if you talk to them like they’re stupid, and you can’t build trust if it’s unclear where your values really lie. This book reminds me of Richard Dawkins The God Delusion, again a book that articulated my beliefs, but did so in such an arrogant way that it even turned me off from reading it for too long let alone a true believer.
The key messages are fantastic and I hope everyone can learn them some day, but while I’m sure millions of people have read his books and love them, I’m not sure the way they’re delivered are really going to engage the other 6.5billion people, the friends and family of mine who I’d love to teach about this stuff but I know will get turned off by the way it’s written. If his mission is really to educate a new generation of entrepreneurs (which is very alturistic and admirable) he really needs to address these issues in his writing.
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|Not good if you have read other Rich Dad books,
I bought this book thinking I would learn something new. This book is a lot of copy and paste of other Rich Dad Material. If you have read other Rich Dad books then you will find it is like reading the same stuff over and over again. I gave 1 star because I really think Robert can do a better job than this. I have bought all his books and this one is like little clips of all the other books.
I hope Robert can make a new book with some new ideas and thoughts. Listening to the same old over and over again is not fun.
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