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Ferriss is the author of the “4-Hour Workweek,” a book I loved, and this is his fourth book. He hosts a podcast and this book is primarily made up of parts of transcripts of podcast interviews with self-made people (titans), including many authors or famous people such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Robbins, Malcolm Gladwell, Ramit Sethi, Sebastian Junger, Seth Godin, etc. The book has large sections on Health, Wealth and Wisdom. The book is a brick (almost 700 pages), like his last two books, and my biggest complaint is that it would have been so much better with more editing. He says that the book is meant for someone to dip in here and there, and that you don’t have to read the whole thing, but I think this format is off-putting. Perhaps podcasts don’t translate that well to text (a lot of the excerpted interviews contain in-jokes and little stories about how Tim knows the interviewees which might be interesting to super fans, but I found them kind of annoying in a book that is already too long). I think the broad sections could have had more categories, e.g., for “Wealth,” subdivide it into sections on productivity, investing or business (there was a preponderance of information on startups). The best parts of the book, to me, were scattered articles from Tim’s own blog that were much better thought out and interesting pieces. He is an original thinker and I most enjoy his own perspectives. The book did contain lots of good advice here and there, but it was not easy to find. The book concluded with lists of recommended (from the interviewees) books and movies. I would like to give it 2 ½ stars, but will give it 3.