There are so many key points from the book but the important key takeaway I got out of Robert Kiyosaki’s the book was:Don’t specialize in one thing only
Don’t specialize in one thing.
The author goes to explain how the world offers jobs only for the designated specialized folks. You go to school and get an accounting degree, and then they want you to do accounting for the rest of your life. The longer you’re in the career the more deeper and deeper you get into the field. There’s nothing else to it. You’re done learning, and you’re done thriving.
The more I look into it the more apparent it is to me that schools want you to master on one industry and one industry only. Either you choose to learn everything there is about history, finance, computer science, registered nurse, astronomy, engineering you get to stick to it until you graduate. Once you graduate you are in that field forever learning just one niche.
Even in engineering, you get to choose which branch you want to focus your studies. Do you want to be specialized in civil, mechanical, chemical, or electrical engineering?
When you study business, you gotta pick a specific niche. Do you want to be stuck with accounting, finance, marketing, HR, or international business?
Here’s what happens when you get out of college: you get to work in that specific field for the rest of your life. Doing just one thing.
What Kiyosaki explains in the book is the way that his rich “dad” got ahead in life is because he went to learn sales in one company, management in another company, read books on something completely different to later owning his own company and managing employees.
The key is to not specialize yourself in one thing only.
The key is to have a broad understanding of whatever it is that you want to learn. Whether it’s an entrepreneurial lifestyle, or you want to learn about healthcare. Study all there is to know about healthcare and all the different departments. Because I bet you anything, not a lot of people in your department know a lot about what the other units do, and how they function.
This is invaluable key point that I took away from the book that completely changed my perspective on how I want to shift my curiosity towards something completely new.
Because you know, the world is filled with new learning opportunities, I just need to take them!
Challenge yourself to learn outside of your “regular” and “normal” duties. You have the world at your fingertips. Mold it the way you envision it.
