Boy, very dissapointed!

I was very excited at prospect of hearing Kiyosaki speak live in more depth about issues he glosses over in his books. Attended Sydney seminar and was interested to see I guess 80 to 90% of audience had read his book Rich Dad Poor Dad – what the rich teach their kids etc etc.

Yet what he talked about for 3 hours was so basic anyone who took in what was in the book was miles ahead of those who paid to see it.

My humble opinion – his books are really good and provide inspiration but cover broad principles and are light on detail. The talk in Sydney was 100% fat free. In the first half hour Kiyosaki said, unlike other seminars, they were not there to sell anything or get your money for higher level conferences. What a load of B.S. That’s all they were there for. The work book contained promotional material for other books, games, and particularly the 3 day business school. He demonstrated broad principles that were covered in more details in his basic books that most people would have read but gave no detail except to say they were in this or that book etc. He got people up on stage who were going to present at the 3 day business school who gave you a very small taste of what you would get there. No guts to the stories or info or usable information, just a sweetner as to what you might get at the 3 day show.

Openly insulted people calling them losers for investing in Negatively Geared Property but did not provide detail as to why or a balanced view. I bet there were hundreds of people there who would have liked him to elaborate on that issue. Much the same with anything said. I didn’t think he was really switched on and motivational either. The whole show was a bit flat, but that was just my experience.

Would I read more of his books? Yes definately because they do provide motivation and broad principles and helped me to move ahead in my interes in IP’s, Investing etc.

Would I recomend going to see him. No way. Lacked integrity. Said he wasn’t going to do something (ie. not going to sell us anything) and then did it. Covered some very broad principles and gave no guts to the story.

Glad I went? Yes and No. Positives to be gained from any situation. Bought 2 tickets months ago hoping my wife would go. She said bugger off so I rang an old mate from Sydney and got together. He didn’t mind the show too much and whoever knows where us getting together could lead to.

Sorry for the big blurb on my first post, but have been really interested in this site and now have taken a plunge with an IP so felt I should imerse myself in the forums.

Cheers.

Todd Sweeney
‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.’ Goeth