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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
3.4 AVERAGE
1.12k reviews for:
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
3.4 AVERAGE
1) I am already a major failure at my goal to stay away from business books and read fiction.
2) This book is almost next to useless, and I expect its popularity derives from people's wishful thinking. It rests on the idea that everyone wants to have a company that provides them with free income and that everyone wants to live a life where they travel all the time.
These two things happen not to apply to me. I'm an educator, not a working stiff. I already get to mostly set my own hours and work remotely, and I suppose I could outsource more if I wanted to, but the whole point of my career is to interact with students and nurture minds. So, while the travel packing tips are nice (though nothing you can't find online), most of this book isn't applicable at all. Usually bestselling business books get that way because they offer a little something for everyone, regardless of career. This one, I think, is selling purely on the spite of people who aren't already doing what they love, and who think the answer is to fill their days with relaxation.
One extra star because the information on how to successfully argue for remote time and how to truly cut down your email volume are very smart. But if you're happy with what you do (and/or you don't want to run a startup company, even for four hours a week), the rest of this book won't be of much use to you.
2) This book is almost next to useless, and I expect its popularity derives from people's wishful thinking. It rests on the idea that everyone wants to have a company that provides them with free income and that everyone wants to live a life where they travel all the time.
These two things happen not to apply to me. I'm an educator, not a working stiff. I already get to mostly set my own hours and work remotely, and I suppose I could outsource more if I wanted to, but the whole point of my career is to interact with students and nurture minds. So, while the travel packing tips are nice (though nothing you can't find online), most of this book isn't applicable at all. Usually bestselling business books get that way because they offer a little something for everyone, regardless of career. This one, I think, is selling purely on the spite of people who aren't already doing what they love, and who think the answer is to fill their days with relaxation.
One extra star because the information on how to successfully argue for remote time and how to truly cut down your email volume are very smart. But if you're happy with what you do (and/or you don't want to run a startup company, even for four hours a week), the rest of this book won't be of much use to you.
If possible, Tim Ferriss is even more of an insufferable douche than I thought.
Worst piece of crap I've ever read. If I ever meet this guy, I hope to punch him in the face and demand my time back.
I wanted this book to be something different than it was… unfortunately, it just ended up being very “corporate-coded” and full of outdated advice written by an arrogant know-it-all. I’m sure there are better books on the shelf that could help teach similar content (hopefully better!) at this point so read those instead. Skip this one for sure!
Loved this!
If you are a motivated and hard-working individual you will enjoy this novel.
So turn away please if you are not of the correct mindset to be reading this.
Now on with the review!
The Author Timothy talks about his multiple trial runs at different careers and it is interesting to see how he has automated bits of his life. Some things he wants you to do I am like AS IF. Some bits of it is interesting to try and I have personally found it liberating. It is no wonder this novel is highly rated. Even in today’s day and age.
This novel talks about how to work smarter whilst keeping life at the main center of it all. You do have to put in work for anything you can’t just go through life not doing any sort of work at all.
He gives you tips throughout hence why this is suited to those (Similar to my circle of those I surround myself with) that are hard-workers.
Review:
https://clife.blog/2023/10/10/book-review-the-4-hour-work-week-by-timothy-ferriss/
If you are a motivated and hard-working individual you will enjoy this novel.
So turn away please if you are not of the correct mindset to be reading this.
Now on with the review!
The Author Timothy talks about his multiple trial runs at different careers and it is interesting to see how he has automated bits of his life. Some things he wants you to do I am like AS IF. Some bits of it is interesting to try and I have personally found it liberating. It is no wonder this novel is highly rated. Even in today’s day and age.
This novel talks about how to work smarter whilst keeping life at the main center of it all. You do have to put in work for anything you can’t just go through life not doing any sort of work at all.
He gives you tips throughout hence why this is suited to those (Similar to my circle of those I surround myself with) that are hard-workers.
Review:
https://clife.blog/2023/10/10/book-review-the-4-hour-work-week-by-timothy-ferriss/
The first 15% of the book was brilliant. The rest were lists upon lists upon lists of very outdated information (ie: Skype was new & exciting; the idea of selling digital images as a photographer was a new practice). I even read the updated and extended version, but this book was simply not written to age well.
I can’t argue with the appeal of a four hour work week, or many of the recommendations Tim Ferris makes (e.g. turning off email notifications and various rings, dings and chimes to focus), but something about this book felt off. Like, I felt slightly greasy or manipulative just reading it. I don’t follow Tim Ferris closely, but based on the tone of his writing I think my main issue is how transactional he seems to be. So much so that it often distracted me from the overarching point(s) of this book. I’ll certainly implement parts of what he lays out, but overall, this was a let down.
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3.5 stars and rounding down. The author's voice is privileged, blunt, and sometimes irritating, but many of the ideas here are helpful no matter where you want to take the trajectory of your life, no matter whether you want to be working for someone else or working for yourself. Repetitive task batching, meeting condensation, negotiation tactics, empowering others to make decisions, lifestyle design, creating plans for yourself and identifying actions that will get you there are all worthwhile things to learn about. Those actionable items all get overshadowed by the bulk of the message regarding offloading tasks to low-paid virtual assistants overseas, ducking out of the office and hoping no one will notice, and prioritizing long-term travel as a means to better yourself. I'll take the latter recommendations with a grain of salt.