Eylin Arias

I absolutely loved this book. Of course not everyone will believe in his outlook on life, but I agreed with 99% of everything because I could relate so strongly. I also come from a poor country and a poor family. My childhood wasn't terrible at all, that's not what I am implying. The important part is that it was poor enough to recognize that if I didn't do something with myself my parents weren't going to save me. No one would. That's just surviving. If I want to become successful, I will also need to do whatever I can. If you gave this book to people from similar backgrounds, his words would resonate as strongly as they did for me because we have that beginning part in common. No one will help you, or your family, or anyone else, so go out there and work HARD and do what you need to do in order to not only survive, but to be powerful enough to help as many people as you can. I just want to add that I am a female and that I do not want kids. It doesn't mean that I believe other people shouldn't have kids or that I hate kids. My mom always raised me with the advice that if you ever wanted to get married and/or have kids, that you should have your life figured out. You should have a solid career, be able to stand on your own two feet without the help from anyone else, so that if your relationship ever ended you would be losing a partner but you would not be losing anything else. You would still have your money, your house, your car, and live the life you wanted to live with or without them. And the same goes for having kids. You bring a kid into this life when you have the career, money, house, and time, to give that child what they deserve, which is the best. There is a section in the book about women, which he prefaces by advising women to skip it if you think you can't handle it. He then goes on to say that women, you cannot be having kids without being successful first. The men WILL raise on ahead in front of you because having a child takes time and resources. Time and resources that you currently do not have enough of *yet*. It is a beautiful book that I would not necessarily say is about self help. Because I view that category as a *how* to get it done when you are already in the right path to wanting to. If you are looking for how, you need to take some classes on what you are trying to accomplish, or read a different book with specific steps for what *you* are trying to accomplish. This book is about how to approach life. It's not about the how, it's about the mentality.