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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's episode number 254 of the way I heard it. |
0:08.3 | And this one is called What the Hand Does, The Mind Remembers. |
0:13.8 | Assuming you're okay with that title, Chuck. |
0:15.8 | It's a great quote. |
0:16.8 | Yeah, it's absolutely good. |
0:18.5 | We wrestled with calling it, I'm alive today, because of what? |
0:25.5 | Because dead men kept fighting. |
0:27.8 | I'm alive today because dead men kept fighting. |
0:29.9 | He's a guy who fought in Vietnam, and I believe he was shot down as well. |
0:34.7 | He flew an attack helicopter. |
0:36.8 | Robert Kiyosaki has a lot of stories, |
0:39.3 | and you're going to hear a few of them in this conversation. He, of course, is the author of what |
0:44.9 | many claim to be the best-selling financial book ever written, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. You read it Chuck |
0:50.8 | back in 2000. I read it in the late 90s. For me, it really drew a bright line, |
0:57.4 | not just between being an employee versus being an entrepreneur, but an employee versus a freelancer. |
1:04.6 | Rich dad, poor dad became part of my explanation for why I love freelancing and gigging as much as I do. |
1:13.8 | It introduced me to a way to think outside of the box. |
1:18.1 | I mean, what his rich dad did for him and his best friend was to open up their minds, |
1:24.3 | to make them think like entrepreneurs instead of employees, make them think |
1:29.5 | outside of the box of different ways that they can make money. And they played monopoly to |
1:34.8 | learn about money, which I think is pretty crazy. Yeah, his rich dad insisted they play monopoly. |
1:40.9 | And to this day, Robert says it informed a lot of what he did in the world of real |
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