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    • Apparently, working four hours a week requires being an a**hole

    • I started reading "The 4-Hour Workweek" at the suggestion of a dear friend who read and enjoyed it. I'd heard a little bit of buzz about the book, and hey, who wouldn't like to free up 36+ hours every week?

      While Tim Ferriss' ideas were certainly interesting, and some perhaps even useful, I had a really difficult time getting over his absolute cockiness and presumptiveness. Also, his terrible writing skills.

      Every chapter's introduction sounded like a 7th-grader's attempt at "hooking" a reader. There was so much macho hyperbole and braggadocio that it hurt my eyes to roll them as often as I was.

      Despite all this, I might return to the book at some point to finish hearing him out and read some of the more practical advice he offers on developing sources of income that require little time and attention. But I still might punch Ferriss in the face if I ever meet him.

       
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    nelking said:
    I'm going to try to use the word braggadocio frequently this week.
    Didn't finish the book either...
    posted over 3 years ago
    erika said:
    So, is this the manshow version of "The Secret"?
    posted over 3 years ago
    wesm said:
    The writer is a tool. he continuously brags about winning a martial arts competition, but all he did was push contenders out of the ring instead of using the sport's techniques, therefore won entirely on a technicality that real sportsmen would be embarassed to use. this guys book should be titled "how to be a successful manipulative scumbag", or " how to stand on a house of cards and then brag about it".
    posted over 3 years ago
    charbel said:
    I agree that the way he won the martial arts competition is lame and nothing to brag about if you're a true athlete. I did enjoy the concepts and case studies he presented, but his writing style and cockiness is annoying. What he basically did was collect a bunch of practical concepts that people have been doing for years and re-branded them. I was disappointed that his whole book was a collection of existing practices rather than something more innovative that he himself did.
    posted over 3 years ago

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