Rich Dad, Sick Dad

by

Dr. Bob

Foreword
 

Like those whom I teach, I am learning and growing, too. I recognize that finding true happiness means expanding beyond a mission of financial well-being to a mission of complete well-being: in health and wellness, spiritual awakening, philanthropy, and purpose. In essence, a Rich Life.
 
Robert T. Kiyosaki
I Am The Rich Dad Company

Rich Dad, Poor Dad - cover

From Wealth to a Rich Life

Robert Kiyosaki wrote Rich Dad, Poor Dad over 25 years ago. But, this reader-writer didn’t come across his book until recently. Then in the midst of the read, he couldn’t help but compare the state of “men and money” against that of “men and medicine.”

As usual when reading an interesting book, this reader took notes throughout the pages of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Reviewing those notes some months later caused him to blurt out, “Wow!”

That was not a new exclamation, but a bonus following on many others blurted out during the first read. Throughout the pages of the book, he found many similarities and commonalities between how we relate to money and to medicine. Most of us are really quite as ignorant on how best to handle health issues as to deal with financial transactions. So, Mr. Kiyosaki’s often simple but brilliant observations – it seems to this reader-writer – can be used to help us shine light on health and illness, medicine and disease.

Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad has been a bestseller since it was first published and also stands as the #1 personal finance book of all time. Through it and many other books, Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and maybe even changed the way millions of people think about money. His first book has been translated into 38 languages, and has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad tells of Kiyosaki growing up with two dads — his birth father, his Poor Dad, and the father of his best friend, his Rich Dad — and the ways in which both men influenced his thoughts about money and investing. The book challenges the myth that you need to get a traditional education to get a good job and become rich. It goes on to explain the difference between working for money and having money work for you.
 
In our ever-changing world, we can dare to get smarter when it comes to money  … and we can also work at getting healthier by re-viewing our lives and environment, our thoughts and habits, our hearts and souls, our illnesses and relationship to medicine.

Beyond the bumpy road to riches, Robert Kiyosaki has had his own health and illness journey. Health challenges came to him, as it does to most of us, in later years and pushed him to expand his horizons as suggested in the opening quote above.

So, watch out, dear reader! Rich Dad, Sick Dad can be a catalyst for you to do that – to build and rebuild your health, even as the first Rich Dad has stirred so many with regard to finances. So, let us take steps in that direction now.

Let the reader understand that we have gathered some of the gems of Rich Dad, Poor Dad to use them as stepping stones toward true health. Medicine and money, health and financial well-being have much in common and cross paths in most everyone’s life. Then too, we must warn that Rich Dad, Sick Dad takes some twists and turns which may give the reader as well as even Mr. Kiyosaki moments to pause and wonder.

Ultimately, we will endeavor to follow a major key to Kiyosaki’s ideas and successes. Futurist Buckminster Fuller, with whom Robert studied a number of times, has been one of his heroes. Fuller believed – long before the idea of Dark Matter and Dark Energy – that 99 percent of reality is invisible, admonished his followers to seek the future by seeking the Biggest Picture possible. How big can we go? Let the reader decide.

Note: That italicized sentences in Part I of Rich Dad, Sick Dad are taken verbatim from Robert Kiyosaki’s original book or his later one called Fake. The reader should also realize that this book does not imagine taking on the whole system of medicine – but rather major aspects which Kiyosaki unknowingly helps us bring to light in Rich Dad, Sick Dad. By the time the reader has gone through this little book, s/he will have gained wider vision and practical understandings of issues analogous to those discussed in Rich Dad, Poor Dad.



Contents

PART I

Modern Busy-ness

The Wealth of Kings

Royal Disease

Rich Man, Poor Man Diseases

Authorities and Academics,
Experts and Salesmen

Why Medical Reform is a Joke?

The War on Drugs and Cancer

Drugs and the War on Disease
and the War on Sanity

The War on Drugs

The War on Cancer

Riches and Debt

 Some's Good, More's Better

From Fear and Ignorance to
Love and Wisdom

Cause and Effect

The Genius Within


PART II

Wise Dads

Share the Health – and the Wealth

Second Opinions

Story and Meaning

Holism

Vitality and Energy

Centers of Consciousness

Nature

Home is Where ...

Natural Law

Divine Law

The True Healer



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