quicksand wrote:
...every academic failure looks at the handful successful businessmen who didn't fare well in formal studies and automatically assume they are like them.
These authors use that reasoning to bait people to buy their books, which are usually just platitudes and a simplistic view of things. The world is very complicated and nuanced.
For every Njenga Karume, Sonko and other successful biz people, there are hundreds of thousands stuck in poverty, casual labour, despair and drunkeness. Millions even.
There are people who are ingenious, explore many ideas, work hard and do all the right things but never get rich. "You can achieve whatever you put your mind to" is the kind of rallying call that only simpletons take to heart (and keep giving the likes of Kiyosaki money). How much you can achieve is dictated by the circumstances you find yourself in. How much you can change your circumstances depends on the circumstances you find yourself in. Some things you cannot change.
The number of successful people who are well educated greatly outstrips that of successful people who are not well read comparing like for like successwise; its just that a successful person with degrees does not make compelling reading, can't sell as much, so we have allowed ourselves to be tricked into reasoning that mediocrity is also acceptable. Read, be entertained, glean lessons from these books and motivational speakers etc etc but never once forget that pithy quotes, soundbites and packaged stories are not a substitute for reality. More importantly, make sure your children get a good education
You have missed the whole point of the book by a country mile bradza.
What Kiyosaki is stating can be viewed as a good theory which is backed by lots of anecdotal as well as empirical evidence.
His is not to decry academic excellence (which is a good thing that I also support), but to point out the world as it IS not as you would like it to be
An A student is a trained robot. Teach him triple integral calculus and he will reproduce what he has learned to the letter giving the illusion of shocking brilliance.
Tell that same A student to manage a simple Java branch or a small mall and he might be stumped. But put him in a room to do engineering calculations for you to build your skyscraper and he is a wizard.
We need A students. To work for C students.
I was an A student as well but I overcame my education. Let that sink in.
Look at the Forbes lists. If the theory that A students are tops even in life were tested on that list alone it would fail miserably as 80% are C students.
Look here in Kenya. Wakina Chandaria, Kirubi, Karume, Devki, Kirima and a long slew of the rest were all C or below students. Have you heard Merali speak. His english is barely intelligible.
Further afield look at kina Dangote..richest in Africa. That should tell you something. Look further afield at the Korean Chaebol billionaires, the Chinese ones, the Japanese ones. The list is endless.
In fact an A student at the top financially is actually an anomaly/quirk of nature.
But we need A students to be our doctors, engineers, pharmacists, rocket scientists etc in the companies the C students own.
Haya si magumu. An A student thinks and acts in robotic fashion because he is
a trained intellectual robot. When asked what 1+1 is he regurgitates 2. That's how he passed all his exams with straight As.
By obeying laid out orders.The C student on the other hand is not restrained by such limitations. When you ask him what one plus one is he will ask you why he needs to learn this garbage in the first place when he could be busy making best use of his time building his empire.
Are there billions of C student failures in life? Of course. In fact they are the majority. But that's not what the topic of focus of the book is. It's on those who pull the levers of power in business and heck even politics. Look around you. Even in your own country you have been ruled from day one by C students. Some like the man with the rungu even didn't go to uni yet he ruled y'all for 24 good years