This week, I discovered that Rich Dad Poor Dad, a book about personal finance, is really a book on mindset (although I do feel like I have a better understanding of personal finance now that I’ve read it). And it’s the same dang book that I’ve read before.

In fact, I could make a map of the ideas in this book and how they directly correlate to other self improvement books. One of those is Jordan B Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, which references the same cartoon as RDPD.

It’s an influential cartoon, clearly. The 98-lb-weakling meme is real.

I feel a little bit duped, to be honest. By myself. Like I pull the wool over my own eyes. I keep reading these types of books trying to find – what – the right idea that will get me on the right track. But I’ve known all along that my problem is not learning, but doing. So it doesn’t really matter how many of these types of books I read, if I don’t put any of it into practice.

Robert Kiyosaki says it himself: action always beats inaction.

He also finally namechecked Think and Grow Rich so I feel marginally less crazy now.