Editor’s note: This article was first published in December 2014, before the book was released; the February 3, 2015 release date, the Amazon pre-order and the English-only availability describe the situation at that time.
Robert Kiyosaki is starting 2015 with a new book called Second Chance: for Your Money, Your Life and Our World. The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, one of the best-selling personal finance books (and one of the most recommended of our time), has gone for a more professional-sounding title this time. The book focuses on the economic crisis the world has just been through, which he sees as both a danger and an opportunity to get rich.
In some respects he has changed the message he had already preached in the countless books that followed his famous bestseller, a message that had become rather repetitive.
Kiyosaki now talks about the end of the industrial age and the rise of the information age, in a fast-changing world where only those who have trained their minds to see what the eyes cannot see will succeed.
This time, Kiyosaki focuses on the new business opportunities opened up by new technologies, and on how anyone can get a second chance to take back control of their financial future.
However, according to our colleague Victoria B, who has had access to a summary of the book, Kiyosaki devotes a large part of his new book to repeating ideas already set out in his earlier ones. Once again he spends entire chapters explaining his concept of an asset (it puts money in your pocket) and a liability (it takes money out of your pocket), and the main problem of the middle class, which is none other than the direction in which money flows: the poor send their money out, while the rich look for ways to bring it in.
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Kiyosaki also returns to the problem of education systems that prepare you not to get rich, but to look for a job.
Victoria B says the part about the business opportunities offered by new technologies is practically the same as Tim Ferriss’s great book The 4-Hour Workweek, in which the author gave a thorough overview of how to build assets in the new technological era, with some realistic ideas for making money and doing business online. Tim Ferriss was the inspiration for the young man who made $120,000 in a few months with the idea of an online course.
In short, Kiyosaki is repeating himself once again. The book goes on sale on February 3, 2015. Right now it is available for pre-order on Amazon, and only in English.
Featured image: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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