Rich Habits Poor Habits (Sự Khác Biệt Giữa Người Giàu Và Người Nghèo)

Rich Habits Poor Habits combines two distinct bodies of work: Tom Corley's original research tracking the daily habits of 233 self-made rich individuals against 128 people living in poverty, and Michael Yardney's parallel expertise in wealth psychology and property investing, adapted here for an international (and in this Vietnamese edition, Vietnamese-market) audience. The book's premise is that wealth is far less about intelligence, luck, or inherited advantage than it is about accumulated daily habits — specific, identifiable, repeatable behaviors that compound over years into either financial security or financial struggle, largely below the level of conscious daily decision-making.

The book opens by making the case for why an ordinary reader should believe wealth is achievable through habit change rather than circumstance, then spends its middle section building the psychological foundation: how mindset shapes financial behavior, why most people never develop the specific thinking patterns of the wealthy, and the neuroscience-adjacent explanations (attention, delayed gratification, belief systems) the authors offer for why some habits are so hard to change without deliberate intervention.

The bulk of the book is then organized around Corley's specific "Rich Habits" — a defined list of concrete daily practices drawn from his original research (things like goal-setting practices, reading habits, relationship and networking behaviors, financial discipline around saving and spending, and health routines) presented as short, focused chapters, each explaining one habit, why the data suggests it correlates with wealth accumulation, and how to build it. Yardney's property investment expertise is layered in throughout as the applied wealth-building context for readers who have adopted the underlying habits and mindset and are ready to act on them.

The book's overall arc moves from persuasion (wealth is achievable) to psychology (why habits are hard and how to change them) to a concrete, checklist-like inventory of specific habits to adopt, closing with practical guidance oriented toward property investment as Yardney's preferred wealth-building vehicle for readers who have internalized the earlier material.