The people that are employees that are near or at middle age (let's say near 30), have many anchors. Financial and familial obligations and circumstances have secured them to their current situations. No useful details. He does provide a TON of good links to online resources though. Find what you are passionate about - what excites you and do it. Create an automated business online and sell someone else's products or ebooks. The first half of the book builds you up by citing examples of success, and then the second half provides vacuous information about how to outsource your life after you've made it, while never really providing you any usable information on how to "make it". I can't imagine why this book is getting so many 5 star reviews. This review may be a lot shorter than many of those I've posted for other books, because frankly I'm still not quite sure what I think of "The 4-Hour Workweek." Certainly, it has given me a tremendous amount to think about - not quite to the level of career-crisis-inducing life angst, but definitely enough to make me wonder about what I ought to be doing, or am capable of doing, differently.
What's inside, though, are things that you can find better handled by other authors in other books. In the first part of the book one can't help notice what a great guy the author is. Preview of things to come. His Aston Marin DB9 only costs $2,003.10 per month, he tells us. Call him PT Barnum. First off, yes, I read the entire book. He hired an assistant to look for a toy online that was in much demand the assistant got paid $20.00 USD per hour to do this and the toy cost about $20.00 USD and he didn't get the one he wanted. If the assistant spent three hours looking for this toy the total cost $80.00 USD.
I recommended the book to many people, most liked it some didn't. I eagerly pre-ordered this version of the book when I first heard about it mostly because I was curious if it would really be better, and boy was it! What makes this book different, and worth purchasing, is the repurposing of these techniques. Ferriss doesn't tell you how to make a successful small business; he shows you how to build a small business that you can hand off to others to manage, allowing you to follow your "dream lines". The Information holiday is a keen idea. In general, I'm a firm believer in the Pareto Principle.
If you like some of what he says, read the appropriate books from his bibliography to get deeper insights. Like so many others, I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend.
And contrary to what many readers seemed to get out of the book (or out of their reading of the reviews only), the author's message isn't about being greedy, but about acquiring freedom and then using that freedom for something that benefits both you and others at the same time. Pointless drudgery and suffering for the sake of it is, pointless. I sat down with this book and read until the wee hours of the morning. Sure a lot of the material is the same, but there are around 100 new pages of material and that material is what the first edition desperately needed.
What's inside, though, are things that you can find better handled by other authors in other books. In the first part of the book one can't help notice what a great guy the author is. Preview of things to come. His Aston Marin DB9 only costs $2,003.10 per month, he tells us. Call him PT Barnum. First off, yes, I read the entire book. He hired an assistant to look for a toy online that was in much demand the assistant got paid $20.00 USD per hour to do this and the toy cost about $20.00 USD and he didn't get the one he wanted. If the assistant spent three hours looking for this toy the total cost $80.00 USD.
I recommended the book to many people, most liked it some didn't. I eagerly pre-ordered this version of the book when I first heard about it mostly because I was curious if it would really be better, and boy was it! What makes this book different, and worth purchasing, is the repurposing of these techniques. Ferriss doesn't tell you how to make a successful small business; he shows you how to build a small business that you can hand off to others to manage, allowing you to follow your "dream lines". The Information holiday is a keen idea. In general, I'm a firm believer in the Pareto Principle.
If you like some of what he says, read the appropriate books from his bibliography to get deeper insights. Like so many others, I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend.
And contrary to what many readers seemed to get out of the book (or out of their reading of the reviews only), the author's message isn't about being greedy, but about acquiring freedom and then using that freedom for something that benefits both you and others at the same time. Pointless drudgery and suffering for the sake of it is, pointless. I sat down with this book and read until the wee hours of the morning. Sure a lot of the material is the same, but there are around 100 new pages of material and that material is what the first edition desperately needed.
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