Regarding money, the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" exemplifies two completely opposite attitudes of two dads toward money.
A father said, "Greed for money is the source of all evil."
Another dad said, "Poverty is the root of all evil."
One dad said, "I'm not interested in money."
Another dad said, "Money is power."
Perhaps it is due to some financial problems in the past two years, as well as continuous learning and self-growth. So when I saw those few words, I couldn't agree more with the way another dad looked at money.
It is often said that money is not omnipotent, but it is impossible without money.
When I think about it again today, I suddenly found that in this sentence that no one knows, it seems to contain a kind of ambivalence about people's treatment of money.
That is, people both desire money and see it as dung.
In real life, I often hear people say that "money is not important to me", but in fact he works faster than anyone and saves a lot of money.
If that's the case, why can't we generously admit that we like money and say that "money is power"?
The point I want to make here is that I am not encouraging everyone to pursue money alone, and everything is based on the supremacy of money, but we need to change our way of thinking about money.
In this way, we can help us live a better and happier life. After all, the economic base determines the superstructure, and the way parents think also determines the way children think.
Although "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is about financial management, what is more important is actually a way of thinking about financial management.
Regarding money, after reading the book "Rich Dads Poor Dads", I found that there are three kinds of thinking that parents should teach their children the most, and what children need the most.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > the first way of thinking, let the money work for itself, not let itself work for the money. </h1>
There is a question that you can think about, "Why do you work"?
Some people may stop and think about it, but some people may blurt out that they make money, and these answers are very normal.
But what we can see from it is that most people are working for money, and as Rich Dad Poor Dad says, the poor and the middle class work for money, and the rich never do.
The book talks about a money trap – donkey pulling a cart.
A donkey pulls a cart, and the owner hangs a carrot in front of it. The owner knew exactly where he wanted to go, and the donkey was chasing only a phantom. But the next day the donkey will still go to pull the cart, because there are carrots hanging in front of it.
It's a lot like a person working hard every day, keeping up with the ideals of the boss, and the salary is like that carrot.
If one wants to break out of this way of thinking about working for carrots, one has to shift one's mind and establish a new way of thinking–in turn, let the carrots work for themselves.
In this way, money cannot dominate our lives at will, but serves our lives.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > second way of thinking, it doesn't matter how much money you make, what matters is how much money you leave behind. </h1>
Regarding spending money, most people may adhere to such an attitude: earn more to spend more, earn less to spend less, and there is a "moonlight family", the monthly financial child.
This situation is the most common in life, even for many children, and the pocket money given by parents every month is spent.
Robert Kiyosaki said:
"The rich get assets, and the poor and the middle class get debt, but they think those liabilities are assets."
For how much money they earn, and how much they can keep, this requires individuals to learn some basic financial knowledge.
What are assets, cash flow, revenue and liabilities?
Assets are things that put money in my pocket, and liabilities, on the contrary, are things that take money out of my pocket.
Cash flow describes how a person handles his money.
Income is money received by an individual or business in return for conducting business activities.
Understanding some basic financial knowledge can upgrade one's financial thinking, change one's inherent thinking habits and money attitudes, learn to manage money, and know how to make money work for themselves.
Finally, some words to keep in mind are as follows:
The rich buy assets.
The poor have only spending.
The middle class buys what it thinks is a liability for assets.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > the third kind of thinking, work stability is not everything, continuous learning is everything. </h1>
Job stability has always been a universal value pursued by modern people, and people believe that having a stable job has a sense of security and belonging.
However, Robert Kiyosaki advises people to take a long-term view, not just to make money, but to find another job and learn another skill.
In other words, it is to cultivate yourself and learn knowledge and experience in other different fields. Just like the "slash youth" that is now popular on the Internet, it has multiple titles, crosses multiple fields, and can attack and retreat in many areas.
Leonardo da Vinci said: "Only by continuous learning can the mind never be exhausted."
Learn more and continue to learn, people's minds will continue to grow, so that people become more and more intelligent, live more and more transparently.
Don't stop studying, even if you've graduated from school and worked.
Thinking determines behavior, behavior shapes life, and life is life. What kind of thinking you have, what kind of life you will have.
Whether you want to be poor, middle-class, or rich, it all starts with your thinking.