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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

254: Robert Kiyosaki—What the Hand Does the Mind Remembers

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Robert Kiyosaki talks about how he voluntarily got into Vietnam, how he almost got kicked out, and why he wrote his Capitalist Manifesto to combat Marx’s manifesto.  

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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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