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Chapter Seven
When I called him from California as a grown man to ask him
for money, he wasn’t about to break a pattern he started with me years
before. He didn’t give us money as kids, and he wasn’t about to start
now. Instead, he continued to be tough and guide me away from the
addiction of working for money.
He called money a drug because he observed people who were
happy when they had money and upset or moody when they didn’t.
Just as heroin addicts get high when they inject the drug, they also get
moody and violent when they don’t have it.
“Be careful of money’s addictive power,” he often said. “Once you
get used to receiving it, that addiction keeps you attached to the way
you got it.”
Put another way, if you receive money as an employee, then
you get accustomed to that way of acquiring it. If you get used to
generating money by being self-employed, it’s often difficult to break
the attachment to earning money in that way. And if you get used to
government handouts, that, too, is a hard pattern to break.
“The hardest part about moving from the left side to the right
side is the attachment you have to the way you are used to earning
money,” said rich dad. “It’s more than breaking a habit. It’s breaking
an addiction.”
That’s why he stressed to Mike and me to never work for money. He
insisted we learn to create our own systems as a way of acquiring money.
The Patterns
For Kim and me, the hardest part in trying to become people
who generate income in the B and I quadrants was that all of our past
conditioning was holding us back. It was tough when friends said,
“Why are you doing this? Why don’t you just get a job?”
It was even more difficult because there was a part of us that also
wanted to go back to the security of a paycheck.
Rich dad explained to Mike and me that the world of money was
one large system. And we as individuals must learn how to operate in
certain patterns within that system.
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