This book stinks of the worst kind of financial self-help dung. I refuse to read it, based on the following assumptions that it makes:
* Anyone can get rich if they follow it.
* Work sucks and is only a means to an end (read: leisure, which in Ferriss’s case, involves riding motorcycles and dancing the tango); work can never be productive, fulfilling, or meaningful in its own right, while at the same time providing you income.
* Any business paradigm that can be made into an acronym must work!
As for his call to read Thoreau’s “Walden”, Thoreau would actually be disgusted by Ferriss’s disconnect between his preferred activities and the unsavory labor he avoids. Yes, Thoreau called for minimalism, and not to be a slave to your “work”, but he also lived on about $50 for an entire year and built his house with his bare hands.
This excerpt of a review on amazon sums it up: “This is an easy read. Althought I am a slooooow and easily distracted reader, I finished the book from cover-to-cover in a few sittings. I even spent some time researching the weblinks but didn’t do all the challenges because I was eager to absorb all the ideas first.”
Ooh…I just got another idea for making passive income: write a crappy-ass, over-simplified get-rich-quick book and watch it go on the bestseller list. I’m tossing around this one: “Mommy Millions: How To Exploit Your Bundle of Joy”. I’ve already raked in free churros at Taste of Chicago, extra lollipops at the dry cleaners, and child-sized hipster bracelets at craft fairs using my fool-proof method, which simply involves having cute children.
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