Short transcript excerpt from a Catherine Bell YouTube video titled "No more stinkin' thinkin'". The speakers discuss how upbringing and family dialogues shape money mindsets, the idea of "stinkin' thinking" (negative mindset), and explicitly cite Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad as addressing intergenerational financial dialogue.
You know, you and I were not born with silver spoons in our mouths.
Really. Any spoon was put in our not a wooden one, not a plastic one. It was not. Not at all.
And what it took for us, the first thing that I assert we both had to deal with is what was going on in between our ears. Right. Like, on some level, there's that whole thing about stinking thinking.
Correct.
And one of the things I love is in Robert Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad, Poor dad, he actually addresses that dialogue happens in different families that is passed down from generation to generation.
Correct.
Right. And so it's like, what are the poor and middle class? What are the things they're saying to their children and to themselves? What are the wealthy saying to their children and themselves?