@Grant Shipman I like this post, and your thought behind it. But the problem is not the book/program content itself, it's the underlying fundamental thought process of the person(s) getting and reading the content.
I could say "The Richest Man in Babylon" and be both smack right, and wrong, universally at same time. Because it all hinges on the readers thought process there coming to it with. This book will give a person the #1 most important and necessary ingredient to "make it" in REI, that's an INVESTORS mindset. BUT, most are not looking for that.
If that reader, like oh-so-many-a-noob's today, are going to content with a mindset expectation of getting a franchise-like step by step, action-by-action road map to making big $. Well, it doesn't matter what book we say, because nothing will work like that. Those people seek out content looking for a McDonalds like franchisee handbook of how to open and run the McD's from day 1-1000, what they are expecting does not exist.
I spent some time in franchise systems, I know that world very well and I am serious, what those who bought a franchise thinking, how we worked on launch, it's the exact same "persons" in manner of talk, expectations etc. as the REI "noobs" in this edu-addiction cycle.
We see it every hour of every day on these forums. people asking the most finite detail of questions in a way where they don't want answers, they want INSTRUCTIONS. And those instructions to be absolutely, without question, 100% certain and absolute to "work".
The truth is, ALL the books and programs work, AND at same time, they ALL fail to work, universally. It's the readers mindset that determines the difference. Are they seeking instructions to follow, or knowledge to utilize?
My 1st deal I ever did, as my own self as the investor (I had done deals before inside of investment groups) I did in early '09'. I did that deal as a true-real-deal $0.00 down, $0.00 invested flip that was nearly a $100k flip budget alone. My entire "book edu" background was this dusty old Carleton Sheets book that had to have been minimum a decade old, if not 2+. That's it, BUT it's because my focus was I'm doing this, I didn't need or even want someones "plan", I only sought knowledge. AND guess what, I barely got any from it, lol. My biggest knowledge gain was "well, long story short, a person can make things happen" so that's what I did, I just went out and I made things happen.
There is no book in existence that can teach this, or better said, get it through someones head and into there adoption and doing of it.
I did it like a Carpenter. I got what information I NEEDED and then I just started doing. I asked questions where needed but for most part I just DID. The more I did, the better I got at it. The better I got, the more other stuff started making sense, and than I just started adding a new skill-set to my "tool-box" as I went.
It's a process, and that's what books on REI never accurately convey. You will NEVER have it all sorted from a book, not even most or a lot of it BUT you'll get enough to get going and that's all that matters.
A person can read about riding a bike for a decade straight, the moment they actually get on one guess what, there gonna fall flat on there face. Because there is 2 very different knowing's in life. There is learning, and actually KNOWING.
So, all the books, doesn't matter, it's just learning. Pick 1, pick em all, pick none, it matters little. What matters is your MINDSET, because if your focused on the doing, and getting information to aid your doing, it's gonna happen, it's inevitable. BUT, if your looking for instructions to hand you the doing, well, congrat's your a professional student.
The book has no impact on this.
