He did have a company BrainQuicken which sells "Neural Accelerator" supplements. The site is 99% advertising and 1% scientific: It sells because it's precisely that.
My general advice though - find a better business. The one piece of advice I can point to in this book is on page 92 under the heading, "Practice the art of nonfinishing" the author says, "Starting something doesn't automatically justify finishing it." He achieves a 4-hour workweek by simply skimming the cream of a business model that any one of two billion literate people can implement at some level. Are we to believe this business model will be highly profitable for the next several years" Judging by both the book and the website, I don't get the impression he takes it too seriously or believes in the product he is selling. He recommends more or less that we follow his lead. Isn't there more to life than this" My 60-hour job looks pretty good from here because it is helping people move forward into alternate energy.
I found some of the material about working more efficiently and spending more time enjoying life to be quite inspiring. You can get many of the same insights from other books (especially E-Myth Revisited and The Now Habit). I can honestly say that I was surprised at some of the things he wrote, and his sometimes not-awful style. There are some good things in here too. He offers common platitudes such as taking a learning mini-retirement, performing charitable work, and volunteering. By this time, readers might just be wondering whether the Ferriss way is really the smart way at all.
As others have stated, I also suspect that the author is somehow gaming the Amazon rating system. Forget the money, I wish I could get back the hours I invested in reading this book!
He tells you to find a market, find the demographics of your product, make a product and sell it.
So Ferriss is cynical, but does his approach work" I would guess that, for most people, the answer is no.
There will always be people who are materialistic and just want more and more useless "stuff." But then there are others who acquire money and more personal freedom who use a good portion of both of those assets to help others. The core of the book remains nearly the same as the first book - the additional 100 pages primarily consist of examples from others and testimonials taken from the blog. While these are certainly great additions - they don't change or update the core content. The rest of the book is essentially a money making plan for white collar workers who hate their jobs. If Mr Ferriss had restricted this book to a discussion of how to eliminate unproductive efforts from the workplace and shorten the workweek for everyone, he could have written a much briefer and significant book.
I admire success but not bragging. This is a bragging book.
My general advice though - find a better business. The one piece of advice I can point to in this book is on page 92 under the heading, "Practice the art of nonfinishing" the author says, "Starting something doesn't automatically justify finishing it." He achieves a 4-hour workweek by simply skimming the cream of a business model that any one of two billion literate people can implement at some level. Are we to believe this business model will be highly profitable for the next several years" Judging by both the book and the website, I don't get the impression he takes it too seriously or believes in the product he is selling. He recommends more or less that we follow his lead. Isn't there more to life than this" My 60-hour job looks pretty good from here because it is helping people move forward into alternate energy.
I found some of the material about working more efficiently and spending more time enjoying life to be quite inspiring. You can get many of the same insights from other books (especially E-Myth Revisited and The Now Habit). I can honestly say that I was surprised at some of the things he wrote, and his sometimes not-awful style. There are some good things in here too. He offers common platitudes such as taking a learning mini-retirement, performing charitable work, and volunteering. By this time, readers might just be wondering whether the Ferriss way is really the smart way at all.
As others have stated, I also suspect that the author is somehow gaming the Amazon rating system. Forget the money, I wish I could get back the hours I invested in reading this book!
He tells you to find a market, find the demographics of your product, make a product and sell it.
So Ferriss is cynical, but does his approach work" I would guess that, for most people, the answer is no.
There will always be people who are materialistic and just want more and more useless "stuff." But then there are others who acquire money and more personal freedom who use a good portion of both of those assets to help others. The core of the book remains nearly the same as the first book - the additional 100 pages primarily consist of examples from others and testimonials taken from the blog. While these are certainly great additions - they don't change or update the core content. The rest of the book is essentially a money making plan for white collar workers who hate their jobs. If Mr Ferriss had restricted this book to a discussion of how to eliminate unproductive efforts from the workplace and shorten the workweek for everyone, he could have written a much briefer and significant book.
I admire success but not bragging. This is a bragging book.
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