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idealistatheart 's review for:
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss
the 4-hour work week by tim ferriss has been around for a bit.
first published in 2007 and revised 2011, it isn’t exactly fresh, hot news.
it regularly popped up in different algorithm-driven suggestions, but i always dismissed it based on its title and cover.
i just didn’t buy the promise.
but algorithms can be pesky little things and when i started delving into personal finance more, i just couldn’t ignore it any longer.
so i bought it.
and i guess i bought the dream right with it, because once in my possession, i wanted to like it.
i wanted to like it very, very badly.
and i did. but also i didn’t.
reading the book makes the process of finding a side business (called a muse by the author) sound like a walk in the park.
a few hours here, a few hours there and boom you are financially independent. ok, now i did the exaggerating. to be fair, the author did go into a lot more very practical detail.
the sentiment, however, remains.
everything is easy, everything is fast, just a few things to take into consideration, but all in all, not that hard.
only that it is.
just one small example : the author claims that it takes 1-3 hours to create a more compelling website than the competition (p.181). having recently gone through the process of creating a website myself (you’re reading it), i can tell you that researching other pages with the same objective, writing texts, taking pictures, choosing a cms, hosting, a theme, then wire framing and publishing the pages took a lot more than 3 hours. hell, researching the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org took me longer than an hour. not everybody might lose themselves in the details quite as much as me, but on the other hand i have an unfair advantage. i know what a cms is. if you don’t, it will probably take you a LOT longer.
this is just one example, but to me it illustrates my basic problem with the book quite well. nothing in the book is per se impossible. however, it’s just not likely. it’s not even probable. on the contrary, it takes time, energy, strategy, hard work, discipline, sacrifice and dedication.
full review on the blog : https://idealistatheart.com/the-4-hour-work-week-by-tim-ferriss/
first published in 2007 and revised 2011, it isn’t exactly fresh, hot news.
it regularly popped up in different algorithm-driven suggestions, but i always dismissed it based on its title and cover.
i just didn’t buy the promise.
but algorithms can be pesky little things and when i started delving into personal finance more, i just couldn’t ignore it any longer.
so i bought it.
and i guess i bought the dream right with it, because once in my possession, i wanted to like it.
i wanted to like it very, very badly.
and i did. but also i didn’t.
reading the book makes the process of finding a side business (called a muse by the author) sound like a walk in the park.
a few hours here, a few hours there and boom you are financially independent. ok, now i did the exaggerating. to be fair, the author did go into a lot more very practical detail.
the sentiment, however, remains.
everything is easy, everything is fast, just a few things to take into consideration, but all in all, not that hard.
only that it is.
just one small example : the author claims that it takes 1-3 hours to create a more compelling website than the competition (p.181). having recently gone through the process of creating a website myself (you’re reading it), i can tell you that researching other pages with the same objective, writing texts, taking pictures, choosing a cms, hosting, a theme, then wire framing and publishing the pages took a lot more than 3 hours. hell, researching the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org took me longer than an hour. not everybody might lose themselves in the details quite as much as me, but on the other hand i have an unfair advantage. i know what a cms is. if you don’t, it will probably take you a LOT longer.
this is just one example, but to me it illustrates my basic problem with the book quite well. nothing in the book is per se impossible. however, it’s just not likely. it’s not even probable. on the contrary, it takes time, energy, strategy, hard work, discipline, sacrifice and dedication.
full review on the blog : https://idealistatheart.com/the-4-hour-work-week-by-tim-ferriss/