Reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad represented a paradigm shift for me.<p>Having been brought up in a middle class, academic family and moving successfully down an academic track, it opened my eyes to ideas that I couldn&#x27;t even have comprehended existed before.<p>I don&#x27;t know if the majority of what Robert Kiyosaki sells is bluff and bluster, but I do know that the foundational message of the book (as told in the quotes on this blog post) were absolutely revalational to me.