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Day 4: The Rat Race Explained - Why its important to read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad

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It's interesting going through the pages of Chapter 1 in Rich Dad Poor Dad where Robert Kiyosaki talks about financial literacy and why it's important for young people in school and college to start to learn what makes money and how to make it work for you. Want To Learn More ? Most probably you have heard the saying by now - Escape The Rat Race ! Most people have as its comes up on Facebook quite often. But what is really the Rat Race of life. Let me explain after what I picked up from the book RichDadPoorDad. And if I can make you understand what it is then I have learned the lesson well too. After all these notes are meant for me to learn too. The Race Race Of Life! The message passed on by parents! According to Kiyosaki parents tell children when they are young that getting a college degree is the most important thing for them to get. Without a university degree they will not be able to land themselves a good job and get by in life. So what do children do...

Day-2: Having The Big House , Car and Income Was Not Enough

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Today is Day-2 in my study of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. On page 1 I can relate to what Sharon Lechter says about financial literacy .  When I was growing up as a teenager in India my dear mother pushed us to study hard as it was the only thing she felt was between having a job and being broke in the 70's. My parents spent so much of their life's earnings on educating their 7 children giving them the very best of education there was around making us engineers, accountants and administrators. Yet as I was growing up I felt there had to be a better way. I saw both mum and dad working very hard to just put us through school first and then college. What hurt me most as a 11 year old was to see mum take up a job so we could keep on studying at a private school. Having a large family back then was not easy for my father to bring up 7 children just on one wage. Due to this huge finacial burden they never really had a great life. They were so much like the...