The 4-Hour Workweek
I just finished reading The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss. I find the title nauseating. This book is an excellent example of the hubris of someone who has had some short-term success and now deems the masses worthy of his step-by-step “system” of how we can be successful just like him. The book has all the platitudes and fillers of your standard self-help book. I only read it, hoping there might be some original thought or idea I hadn’t seen somewhere else. There wasn’t much.
It’s not that I disagree with the author’s thesis. I just found the presentation of it empty and over simplified ⎯ as if written by someone who only works 4-hours a week and consequently didn’t have the time or desire to really delve into the topic. In fact, in keeping with the book’s theme, I suspect much of the book was outsourced to other writers.