Read rich dad poor dad. Nothing but leveraging yourself into oblivion and doing your best to make the most sketchy writeoffs or deductions you can. Heck, the author is allegedly a billion in debt and has filed for bankruptcy at least once. Not exactly a resounding example of his own financial advice.
The way the book was explained to me, if your dad is a working stiff he’ll just tell you to work hard at whatever high paying job you can get. If your dad is a high finance type of guy, he’ll show you that the real money is in managing money.
Good concept, and true I guess. The book is useless though!
Kinda disagree on Never Split the Difference! Listened to the audiobook of it and found it to be a good primer on the basics of negotiation, something I profoundly lacked, was never taught, and had that used against me on more than one occasion.
Nothing mind-blowing, but for the price of free from my local library, I feel like the techniques gave me a little confidence in the process.
I do agree that a lot of these books could have easily been WAY shorter but try to sell you on value by page count lol.
Disagree on subtle art, as someone with 3 kids, the core message of choosing what to care about is super important. There is so much in life you don’t need to concentrate on.
I’ve read rich dad poor dad, somewhat interesting but ultimately not that helpful.
The subtle art of not giving a fuck
Never split the difference
Rich dad poor dad
7 habits
These books exist just to sell seminars.
Read rich dad poor dad. Nothing but leveraging yourself into oblivion and doing your best to make the most sketchy writeoffs or deductions you can. Heck, the author is allegedly a billion in debt and has filed for bankruptcy at least once. Not exactly a resounding example of his own financial advice.
The way the book was explained to me, if your dad is a working stiff he’ll just tell you to work hard at whatever high paying job you can get. If your dad is a high finance type of guy, he’ll show you that the real money is in managing money.
Good concept, and true I guess. The book is useless though!
See the One Book-theory from the podcast If Books Could Kill
Because all self-help books are basically the same and they all fit that bill
My former therapist wanted me to read those. This was in 2023
😬
Your former-therapist needs a therapist.
Kinda disagree on Never Split the Difference! Listened to the audiobook of it and found it to be a good primer on the basics of negotiation, something I profoundly lacked, was never taught, and had that used against me on more than one occasion.
Nothing mind-blowing, but for the price of free from my local library, I feel like the techniques gave me a little confidence in the process.
I do agree that a lot of these books could have easily been WAY shorter but try to sell you on value by page count lol.
Disagree on subtle art, as someone with 3 kids, the core message of choosing what to care about is super important. There is so much in life you don’t need to concentrate on.
I’ve read rich dad poor dad, somewhat interesting but ultimately not that helpful.
I’ve heard of 7 habits, not read it though.
Not heard of the other one.
I would like to add Atomic Habits to this. Though the subtle art of not giving a fuck was helpful to angsty early 20s me.