This Book didn’t change my life until I actually paid attention

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I remember before starting my business, I was already fascinated by business and entrepreneurship but I didn’t have the drive or the same energy I have now. Honestly, I was quite clueless.

It was one night in the living room. My dad put on an audiobook. At the time, I thought books were a waste of time. I remember sitting there with my dad and my older sister. I don’t remember how long we sat there, but it felt like an eternity.

I saw my sister looking engaged, but I knew for her it was going in one ear and out the other. Then I remember when it finished…

My dad asked, “What did you learn?”

I don’t remember my sister’s answer, but I

still remember mine, word for word:

I remember the look on my dad’s face like he was thinking,

“I’ve just wasted hours of my life for you to give me this crappy answer.”

Fast forward to now: I’ve started my business.

I’ve re-read that same book… and now it’s one of the best I’ve ever read.

I learned about financial freedom.

About how society programs us to follow a script school, degree, job, work till retirement and how that script isn’t the only way.

That book taught me that you get to pave your own path.

It made me realise: no one’s going to hand you the life you want.

You don’t wait for freedom you create it.

You don’t get rich slowly and safely you get rich by becoming valuable, thinking differently, and moving fast with intention.

This book is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.

at the start of 2025, I read What’s Your Dream? by Simon Squibb, and in April, I finished The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett. That’s actually when the idea for writing about what I’ve learned from these books first came to me.

I think my first ever newsletter briefly touched on Simon’s book but that was more of a quick update; I was only around 22 pages in and shared some early thoughts.

Now that I’ve finished The Millionaire Fastlane, I’m planning to go back and write proper breakdowns on all three books and of course, I’ll be reading those issues out loud too for spotify and youtube etc.

Talk soon.

Yousaf