Rich dad poor dad. It got me thinking pro actively about money, paraphrasing "its not I CANT afford it, but HOW can I afford it".
To be clear: there is a lot wrong with this book. I find the title to be abrasive and not reflective of the value of the content inside the book. The authors also never established any real credibility of domain expertise. The book reads a lot like a Malcom Gladwell version of financial education.
The book's strength is also it's weakness: it presents lessons as simplified parables without considering much nuance. For me as a young reader, this was valuable. Now, I'm not sure I would get as much value out of it because I would not be able to get past the many contradictions and flawed logic. But perhaps I wouldn't be able to read it critically if I had never read it in the first place.
I don't even remember the specific lessons. But I remember it providing many moments of clarity for my young mind to internalize.