Hi Rick,

Like you said you already understood the "THEORIES" (ie. Mindset, Concepts) so I agree that you would have found VERY LITTLE in his first two Books.

I share Dien's view. In Kiyosaki's first book and his others, He was trying to change the MINDSET of his readers. Basically to understand what an "ASSET" really is! and Why the RICH GET RICHER!

With this MINDSET, you have real POWER because you can pick and choose the specific techniques which you like to make money

He was trying to differentiate himself from OTHER authors, that only give you TECHNIQUES! Once you understand the CONCEPT and have the MINDSET then and only then did he introduce the reader to DETAILS and SPECIFICS in RICH DAD GUIDES TO INVESTING.

I found his books extremely valuable to me, because he explains in SIMPLE terms, How the Rich think?

Understanding that, now it's a matter of CHOOSING and DOING something. Like you and Gordon!

Duane (Mr. Mindset) Adolph
> Sowpub'ers -

> In the past, we've discussed Robert
> Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad" series of
> books. The first was "Rich Dad, Poor
> Dad." The second was "Cash Flow
> Quadrant." To be quite honest, for me
> neither one of those books had much meat in
> them. I already susbcribed to the theories
> in them. In fact, on someone's
> recommendation, I recently bought "Cash
> Flow Quadrant." I was disappointed
> enough with it that I took it back to
> Borders. I really didn't want the money
> back. I wanted to exchange it for a better
> book. (By better I mean one with ideas in it
> I hadn't heard.) I looked for Robert Allen's
> latest book. They supposedly had it in stock
> but it wasn't on the shelf. So I decided to
> take a look at Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad's
> Guide to Investing." I spent about 30
> minutes checking it out before I left the
> store. It looked good enough so I exchanged
> the other one for it.

> I've been reading it for several days now.
> IMO, this is where all the real meat is.
> So... if the first two books left you flat,
> I would suggest checking out "Rich
> Dad's Guide to Investing." It's made me
> think about a number of things.

> Rick Smith, "The Net Guerrilla"