Tim Ferriss is a smart guy because he gets many people jazzed about working a 4-Hour Workweek. Good marketing for a book - bad concept.
You might call this post a short book review although I have not and will not read the book. What a waist of time. I happened to see a few interviews of Tim on T.V. and online to know this is a joke. Particularly when he goes on to explain that working on the book and promoting it is an exception to only working four hours. SOOO, when actually working on something you care about, this concept does not apply, Tim? He also claims the book is not work because his intentions were to not make money off of it. AH, I guess I "work" a four hour week too. Here is a thinker I will not be having on my radio show about startup stories. To be fair, the concepts of outsourcing or delegating work is important. This is required to be successful. But working a 4-Hour Workweek is the opposite of what anyone doing significant and purposeful work does and I think suggesting it to anyone who wants to do great things is flat wrong.
My advice: instead of looking for ways to work four hours a week, find a passion and plan for balance and integration. Toss the alarm clock and live a full life!
Danny Deutsch of his advertising firm and his show, the big idea, -- and I -- also agree with you. I do have the book -- my dad, partner - gave it to me as a gift. And it's really not as "hyped up" as it sounds. In fact, it's very autobiographical. Ferriss is a young guy (my age, dammit!)... and he was able to put together a wonderful life. And now he is leveraging his personal brand!
Moreover, the book does show mainstream audiences the beauties and necessities of delegation, automation, and enjoying life throughout the process... not workworkworkworkwork, and then maybe having some fun, only to regret it when we return to workworkwork... So in that sense, Ferriss is a fan of of integration & balance.
~ Vik Rajan
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Posted by: Vikram Rajan | July 15, 2007 10:14 AM | Permalink to Comment