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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich |
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Published: 2007-04-24 |
List price: $19.95
Our price: $13.57
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Simplistic at best
Let me start by saying I'm an entrepreneur, running a profitable internet startup.
The author neglects to mention that the vast majority of people who've achieved a 4 hour work week got there after years of working 70 hour work weeks.
The author's sexism was insufferable. He assumes all his readers are men, and there are many "in jokes" at women's expense. I put the book down when I got to the line: "practice picking up girls in order to build your confidence - even if you're married". Now there's some really bad advice.
Not as great as it's made out to be
I really have to wonder if the author has honestly spent enough time on anything to really gauge whether or not he has truly been successful using his mantra. Any new thing, if marketed correctly, will take off, but sooner or later depending on how much of a commodity it is, will fizzle out and die. Outsourcing is fantastic in theory - but does it really work? More than likely only for really huge corporations who can take a hit - the reason why? Nobody cares about your business as much as you do. Well ok, if you're only working 4 hours a week, maybe you don't really care too much about it either!!! Honestly, this dude has shown us how to make bucks while working only 4 hours a day - write some arb book with a catchy title, market it, put on an air of success and Bob's your uncle, he's rich. And you're probably not - rich or working a 4 hour day:) Guys, let's get real here - let's look at the real business people, they did not do it on 4 hours a day, in a hammock with a cocktail, nor did they do it writing some book about it. I bet in 5 years time, he'll be onto the next "big thing". Save your $$.
 Great tips and strategies but title misleading
Great strategies for optimizing, streamlining, and minimizing the amount time spent producing results. This book is for the business person who wants to produce, produce, produce. The tips in this book give a good framework for defining what you do and why you do it and progress to give the reader the tools for getting maximum results with minimum effort.
While it's a catchy title, don't think that your goal has to be to only work 4 hours a week. In fact, you can still "work" as much as you want to. But you will come to find that this book will help you redefine what it is you call "work" and what it is you call "life" and will even help you merge the two.
This is the first author that I have read that has embraced the new wave of technology and has seamlessly incorporated traditional business goals and metrics with high technology to create an endless capacity of productivity and scalability. The first 100% mobile business model realized.
 Read this or you lose.
I read some of the arrogant reviews and have to tell you read this, and if you don't get from it what I did you are not ready for the game. I have read over 100 books on business, personal development and success and this trumps them all combined. please do not be led by the un-successful amazon book reviewers, who have much personal bias in their reviews and no real world experience. I come from the school of hard knocks and I will tell you me and Timothy Ferriss will have beers together one day. Read it no matter what you do or what are your plans, there is "naked" wisdom in there. Take it to heart and enjoy your journey, I have and will. Dan
An Innovative Approach to Taking Control of Your Life
This book is a MUST READ if you are serious about taking control of your time and your destiny. Tim's writing style is engaging, humorous and provocative. He offers a unique approach to work-life balance and he challenges you to think outside of the box and to live life on your terms.
The Four-hour work week is packed with tools and resources to help you design the lifestyle you desire. If you're ready for an "Extreme Makeover" for your life, I highly recommend this book.
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