Rich dad, poor dad was a strange one . I got some good concept from it but the specific tactical advice seemed extremely dodgy to me pre 2008 . I think that people who followed that could have done well for a while but had a high risk of being completely wiped out. looking into Kiyosaki, it seems definitely more of a case of "fake it until you make it'' he got rich writing books about how to get rich mostly. But it is never black or white : there are undeniably good lessons to learn from that one... For me it challenged the idea of a house as an asset ...