Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Rich Dad Poor Dad with @TheFightAgainstMediocrity

3 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief interview segment, Nick Hutchison asks the guest about memorable takeaways from Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad and how many times they have reread the book. The guest reveals they have read the book five or six times, describing it as a paradigm‑shifting work. The most significant lesson they cite is the concept of becoming an investor and business owner—making money work for you and leveraging assets. They recount how, even in school when peers announced conventional career goals, they privately aspired to be an investor and business owner, a desire sparked by the book’s ideas despite not knowing the path to achieve it. Hutchison affirms this as his own major takeaway as well.

What are some of your other memorable takeaways from Rich Dad Poor Dad? And have you read the book again? And if so, how many more times?
I've read it probably like 5 or 6 times. It's a paradigm shifter. One of my other big takeaways from that book was the idea of investor and business owner and making your money work for you and getting leverage. Ever since I learned about that concept when I was in high school and middle school, when the teachers would say, what do you guys want to be when you grow up? And everyone would raise their hand and be like, doctor, firefighter, police officer, whatever. I was always too shy, to raise my hand, but in my head I would say, I want to be an investor and business owner. I didn't know how it would happen, but I knew that's what I wanted to be.
So that's probably my other big, big, big takeaway from Rich Dad Poor Dad.