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.

Rich dad poor dad

7 habits

My former therapist wanted me to read those. This was in 2023

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.

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.

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.

Hey now, there's also two whole pages about the main characters'masturbatory habits!

Multiple people recommended it to me and wanted my opinion of it, but all I could say was "I'm glad you enjoyed it".

the book you HAVE to read to understand why Americans from the flyover states like Trump and why they would vote for him.

It sorta does that, but indirectly, I guess? To me, it was all about what's not in the book. It was marketed as being written from the perspective of "omniscient narrator explaining why those people are the way they are", but really it's more "unreliable narrator explains his worldview".

I read it probably around the same time as you, and it really just made me angry more than anything because basically the whole thesis is "poor people are poor because they are dumb".

The fact that Purdue pharma made a pill that they claimed would last for 12 hours, when it was more like half that, so people had to either take them way more frequently (or take way bigger doses at 12 hours), and then proceeded to sell them to towns in Appalachia by the hundreds per capita is never mentioned.

There's a whole bunch of structural problems that he just breezes by that he probably should recognize (cause I do think he's probably intelligent), but your average person from the region may not. Basically, it's just propaganda.

Before you can help yourself, you must first self your help. That is to say that you must relate to your support network in a way that fits with your worldview.

That will be $14.99. I take, Venmo, PayPal, and Bitcoin.

I actually really liked Atlas Shrugged, and it makes a ton of sense if you rotate the economics of it by 180 degrees. Reardon wouldn't be an owner in today's world. He'd have been bought by someone like Musk long before he was wealthy enough to stop working. Speaking of billionaires, they're Jim Taggarts if there ever was one. Ayn Rand grew up observing what happens when a handful of people acquire too much power and attributed it to socialism. I believe she was wrong, but she wrote interesting stories about excessive power concentration. Here and now, it's the capitalist oligarchs that are breaking down the system. Infrastructure is failing like in the book. It just turns out it was the libertarians/anarchocapitalists instead.

I actually liked The Fountainhead. Rugged, taciturn individualist architect slowly overcomes all the scheming poseurs. It appealed to the younger me anyway. I didn't pick up on any deeper message at the time and this was pre-internet so I didn't have a clue who Ayn Rand was.

My exact thought as well. It was mandatory in HS, and i just never got the hype. Holden Caufield is a whiny phony.

You disliked the ending to The Sphere more than The Andromeda Strain?

I actually want to hear more about this. What're your supporting arguments?