Rethinking Success: Lessons from Rich Dad, Poor Dad and the Real World

 Although, I want to truly understand the person that I am. I am going to summarise the book rich dad, poor dad. I love reading these types of books. Now I am thinking in terms of Rich Dad and Poor Dad. So rich dad poor dad, what I will be doing is instead of just writing stuff. I will be going over quotes from Rich Dad, Poor Dad and expanding on those as that's easier. I'm absolutely in love with the quotes this guy Robert has. Although he might have had some issues over what he did. His book Rich Dad, poor dad is a brilliant book every youngster should read. So let's go over what needs to be read when it comes to Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Okay, so here we go: 

Winners are not afraid of losing, but losers are. Failure is part of process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. I love this quote from Robert. Winners are not afraid of losing. Let's focus on this line first. When you are a winner, you are not afraid whether you will lose something or not. He says that failure is part of the process. So people who avoid failure also avoid success. Basically, avoiding failure is like avoiding a part of you yourself. So one should not be afraid to fail. Rather one should never avoid failure. Embrace failure and success. But give it a shot. That's what matters what the matters. 

Let's think about this in depth. Imagine if Shahrukh was afraid of going to the stage, will he be the person he is today? Imagine if people were afraid to show their true self, they wouldn't be what they are today. So what we want is that we need more and more people to go out and try. Imagine if Sachin was afraid to go and bat in front of the crowd, he would never be the person he is today. Imagine if Virat feared the big occasions. So people would have never been who they are if they were afraid of failing. If Michael Jordan was afraid of failing, he wouldn't be half the person he is. If Obama feared failing, he would have never stood in the elections. If Trump feared failing, he would have also never stood in the elections. So go out there and give your best and forget about failing or success.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams. I have heard Srk saying, "Pair utne failao jitni chadar ho, but his mom told him nahi beta, chaddar utni badi khareedo jitne pair ho". Which means that you should buy a blanket that fits your leg.

"It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit than cut your dreams."

We often hear the saying, "Pair utne hi failao jitni chaddar ho,"—spread your legs only as much as your blanket allows. It teaches us to live within our means. But Shah Rukh Khan once shared something his mother told him:
"Nahi beta, chaddar utni badi khareedo jitne bade pair ho."
Don't shrink your dreams to fit your reality—expand your reality to match your dreams.

That flips the script, doesn’t it?

Most of us are conditioned to think in terms of limits. Tighten the budget. Lower the expectations. Be "realistic." But what if being realistic is not about cutting down your dreams, but leveling up your efforts?

Instead of asking, "How can I fit into this small blanket?" ask, "How can I grow big enough to deserve a bigger one?"

Instead of downsizing your dreams to match your current situation, level up your skills, mindset, and hustle to match the life you truly desire.

Life will always ask you to make trade-offs—but make sure you're not trading in your greatness for temporary comfort.

Let your ambitions stretch the fabric of your limits. Let your drive redefine what's possible.

Grow your income.
Grow your vision.
Grow your self-worth.

One dad had the habit of saying, "I can't afford it." and the other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted, "How can I afford it?" One is a statement and the other is a question. What this technically means is that the other is a question. When you ask a question, you naturally start thinking. Now suppose you want to buy a house... one person will say I can't afford it. It's worth a 2M dollars. Now the other person can ask how can I afford it? He/she will think that we can sell so and so things. We can start a business and grow richer through that. We can invest wisely in certain risky stocks and grow our money. Now the point is not that solutions, the point is that you ask a question and suddenly your mind starts thinking as to how we can afford that house. It's the same situation but how you interpret it, that's what matters the most. So what I want to say is that even if there's something that you cannot afford, don't ask why you can't afford, rather ask what is it that you can do to afford it. How can you afford it. What are certain tools and techniques that you can use to afford it. 

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. It's quite natural to think that when you fall down, you learn by getting up and you walk. That's how a child learns to walk. Similarly, in life we are punished for making mistakes. However, when we don't make mistakes we would not know how to correct our path. We would always be wondering if we can correct the path or not. So it's important that we make mistakes in our path. Because other wise we will never learn.

Let's focus on some depth here. When we make mistakes, what really happens is that your mind gets a feedback on what went wrong. So the next time the baby tries to walk, it develops those leg muscles and tries harder next time. While driving, I remember when I was learning driving, what really happened was there were times where I would fail at driving too. For an example, the days when I started the car, pressed the clutch and slowly took the clutch up, and the accelerator down, there were days where I would not do that very well. Now that was a part of the learning curve. Making mistakes and not being at the very best was the part of the learning curve. What I mean now is that we want to be falling first and making mistakes in order to learn. If you are going to do everything perfectly, you will never learn. So go out there and try,.

Perfection is not the starting point, it’s the outcome of trial, error, and persistence. If we try to do everything perfectly from the beginning, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to truly learn. We stagnate in fear of failure.

So go out there. Be bold. Make mistakes. Fall, get up, and try again. Because that’s how real learning happens, not in avoiding mistakes, but in embracing them.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.  In the real world, the smartest people are not those who avoid mistakes, but those who make mistakes, learn from them, and adapt quickly. They are curious, resilient, and unafraid of being wrong, because they understand that being wrong is often the first step to being right.

Think of innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and artists. The breakthroughs they achieve don’t come from perfection on the first try. They come from iteration—trial and error, failed experiments, risky decisions, and ideas that didn’t quite work out. What makes these people truly intelligent is not that they never fail, but that they reflect, adapt, and improve.

The smartest people in the real world are humble enough to admit when they’re wrong, brave enough to try again, and wise enough to grow from the experience. That kind of intelligence can’t be measured by a test score.