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This blog post about thinking like a rich man was originally written on 10 February 2014 for our sister website – The Money Muppet. We set that site up in January 2014 as we embarked on our journey to financial freedom. The Money Muppet site no loner exists, so we’ve incorporated our financial journey into our travel blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rich Dad Poor Dad<\/p><\/div>\n

One great advantage of not having a TV: I’ve a lot of spare time on my hands after work. As soon as one of us gets a permanent work contract, which will give us access to the mortgage market again, a do-er upper will be found and this free time will be sweetly gone as I’ll be up to my neck in tiles and plaster.<\/p>\n

So I’m making the most of it. In record time yesterday and this evening, I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad<\/a>. A fabulous friend, who happens to be financially independent in his early 50s, told me about it as we got to know each other over bar-top tapas in San Sebastian (or pintxos as it’s known over there), washed down with a few glasses of \u20ac1 rioja.<\/p>\n

It took me two years to get around to reading it, what a muppet.<\/p>\n

Much like How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/a>, it’s a book which slapped me in the face: you idiot, you should have read this when you were 20. If I had, and I’d got it, I’d now be rich, probably retired.\u00a0If you’ve not read it, and you’re wondering where on Earth all your working life money’s gone, you might want to skip it. It’s a bit painful to learn these lessons so late in life. Kiyosaki basically splits us all up into two groups of people:<\/p>\n