I have read some books like Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad and indeed it was very inspiring. But most other books are more like motivational books. A cheerleader in paper form, if you will.Â
Wealth seminars and books are popping up left and right. And all they can offer really is encouragement and sometimes I feel like a patsy for feeding into all these. The cynic in me tells me that these authors are not here to really help you. It just so happened that books like these are selling like hotcakes to suckers like me. Ironically, in the end it’s still all about making money. Think about it, in this day and age, would most people actually tell you their secret and give you a share of the pie?
Take for example the Think Rich Pinoy Seminar on March 29. I really, really want to attend. I’m just not sure if the S$200.00 (P6000.00) registration fee would be worth it. Would I be able to learn new things like at least a simple how-to or would it be just recycled information from Kiyosaki’s books. I’d be more willing to pay that amount for a seminar on Real Estate foreclosures. Ok, I understand that there are overhead costs for putting together a seminar like this one but I also found this wealth seminar by Adam Khoo (Singaporean wealth guru) and the most expensive seating (gold seating) is only at S$135.00. That’s a pretty good price gap right there.Â
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1 anakaraw // Mar 7, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I agree that one cannot really be sure if the TRP Seminar would be worth the money, but don’t most if not all of the items we spend on are the same thing? Take for a example a shirt, we are not really sure whether it is worth the money we spend on it or not. Why? simple because we do not know what it cost to produce this said shirt. But if we let this kind of thinking get to us, we will wind-up walking around naked all the time.
There are two things that we need to realize here. One is that, we cannot be too concerned about what we would loose, though we must be cautious in the process, but be more concerned with what we will gain. Secondly, what do we do with the knowledge that we have acquired? If we are just readers and not doers, then all that we have read and all that we have heard will simply be just “motivational works” or as you put it “cheerleaders in paper form”.
Just like us, I believe that these people who have organized and are participating in the seminar have read all of the books mentioned, but they are at a different level now compared to us. Would it be great to know what they had done after reading the books? = )
2 Ms. Tsiken // Mar 7, 2008 at 4:15 pm
You’re right, anakaraw. That’s why in my next post I say, the seminar was worth checking out.
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