About six years ago, just graduated from high school, I was deeply obsessed with Kiyosaki's words. The most important thing seemed to be making quick money, then retire early and enjoy the "free life". But at that time, I had no idea and clear plan of how to quickly become rich and financial independent, aside from the abstract idea like "investing","leverage","ma
Today, I still had no idea and clear plan :). But toward these years,my focus and main goals slowly shifted to become a "creative and inventive" person. By that I mean a man who possess technical and artistic skills to create astounding works,which in turn will generate money "enough" for my living needs. My interest in duplicating the income (for example by investing in stocks or real estate or whatever the investor teaches ^ ^ ) has been diminished, or more correctly, postponed.
Of course I'm still aware that I need to do some investing in order to "live easier" instead of counting on the "not so great" monthly income. But I think the first and foremost thing to do is to educate myself with the skills mentioned above so that I'm at least as competent as any others in my field, since it's a flat world now (thanks to Mr Friedman for the term). As long as you're competent, the demand for your skill will always exist, and the reward may increase exponentially when you're the 'A' list.
This may not be the best route to be financially independent (it's still my important consideration, I mean, who isn't?), but I think it's the most suitable and satisfying one for me, because basically I'm a person who's quite hungry for knowledge and information,and admittedly, recognition from others. For me it's quite satisfying when people recognize my work or appreciate my technical support/help. So hopefully I could contribute more and more in the future , and get satisfying reward in the process.
I wonder though, what will my 10 years older mind think about in this matter, will it dismiss my current thought as I'm doing now with my adolescence idea? :)
