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sakon76Title: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
By: Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.
Right. So some weeks ago![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
racerxmachina turned me on to Get Rich Slowly, which got added to my daily trawls through the 'Net. And at some point (possibly reading older blog entries), this book came up. Intrigued by the recommendation as a way to change the way one thinks about money, I checked it out of the local library. Now, some of the book is a bit dry, with percentages and charts and the information they got from the millionaires they surveyed and interviewed; at points the advice goes over my head ("investing in... what? I've never even heard of whatever that is they just mentioned!"); and at times the example stories seem to be repetetively pounding on the same nail. But you know what? By the time I finished the book, I did have a different view of money and my personal finances. I've always been of the mindset that my family was poor when I was born, rose to middle class, and that middle class is where I'll live and die. Now I no longer think that. Wealth cannot come immediately, but it is attainable. I've already taken a couple steps toward improving my current and future financial situation due to this book, and Wonderful Husband and I have agreed that post-Fanime we're going to sit down and do more. So I do recommend this book very highly. Stick with it through the dull bits (or just skim them the way I did until you get to something that makes more sense) and I think you'll come out the other side with a stronger sense of what you ought to do for yourself and your future.
By: Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.
Right. So some weeks ago
racerxmachina turned me on to Get Rich Slowly, which got added to my daily trawls through the 'Net. And at some point (possibly reading older blog entries), this book came up. Intrigued by the recommendation as a way to change the way one thinks about money, I checked it out of the local library. Now, some of the book is a bit dry, with percentages and charts and the information they got from the millionaires they surveyed and interviewed; at points the advice goes over my head ("investing in... what? I've never even heard of whatever that is they just mentioned!"); and at times the example stories seem to be repetetively pounding on the same nail. But you know what? By the time I finished the book, I did have a different view of money and my personal finances. I've always been of the mindset that my family was poor when I was born, rose to middle class, and that middle class is where I'll live and die. Now I no longer think that. Wealth cannot come immediately, but it is attainable. I've already taken a couple steps toward improving my current and future financial situation due to this book, and Wonderful Husband and I have agreed that post-Fanime we're going to sit down and do more. So I do recommend this book very highly. Stick with it through the dull bits (or just skim them the way I did until you get to something that makes more sense) and I think you'll come out the other side with a stronger sense of what you ought to do for yourself and your future.
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Date: 2008-05-07 05:48 pm (UTC)