Rich Dad Poor Dad changes my life

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When I read the blogs of many successful bloggers who have retired early, I notice that many of them attribute their success to the book Rich Dad Poor Dad written by Robert Kiyosaki. For example, in the blog early retirement extreme, the blogger mentions about Rich Dad Poor Dad. This blogger retires in less than ten years of working. While he is very frugal to start with, the book Rich Dad Poor Dad shows him that passive income from investment is the way to go. Without this book, he probably never accepts that passive income can be large enough for him to retire on. It is the same for me. Rich Dad Poor Dad changes my life too. Even though I was a good saver, I never thought that anyone could retire on passive income. The interest earned on saving account is so little. Even when the saving interest for fixed deposit was more than 5%, I never could retire on the earned interest. Anyway the saving interest rate dropped steeply after that. Now if anyone can get more than 1.5%, that is already a miracle. Rich Dad Poor Dad opened up the possibility of riches. It opens up to show us the way that the rich manages to survive without a job. Though it is not a practical book in the sense that it tells you what to buy or when to buy, it does say that we have to invest for income, not capital gain. It says that we have to build up asset. For me, I like stock market, because of the ease of buying and selling. I am different from Robert Kiyosaki in that I do not like physical asset, as in apartments or houses or other real estate. I still have a long way to get out of the rat race. However, the journey has started, and passive income has grown bigger and bigger with reinvestment of dividends.