luni, 16 ianuarie 2012

Terrific Value - Career Information Book Review

By Charlotte Baker


Obvious enough once you read them, but a lot of people don't think about them early enough. I'm not convinced that these ideas are his own though. It's nothing new, and Ferris is not an expert entrepreneur.

There are details in this but more details would have been helpful. This book can give a glimmer of hope, to those that need or want it.

If you really want to find inner peace and happiness: help others, take responsibility for your own feelings and actions, exercise your body and brain, and then maybe consider starting a part-time business. I ordered this book the moment I heard about it, and read the entire thing in three days.

In "The 4-Hour Workweek", Tim Ferris tells us that anyone can live life like a millionaire by adopting the philosophy of the New Rich - working the minimum amount of time necessary, having maximum freedom and mobility, and starting a niche business that runs by itself. If you are unsure as to how to accomplish this ideal, "The 4-Hour Workweek" provides a step-by-step recipe.

Others are constantly "being helped" by the government, by charities, by whoever. Now I'm not making a moral judgment against either of these groups of people. The essential lesson of the book is to sell a product using outsourcing of your business' functions to others so that you only have to work 4 hours a week. He uses internet businesses as the one of choice.

That being said, the rest of the advice is either nothing new or not particularly helpful for most readers. Ferriss advocates outsourcing to virtual assistants. I don't think that stretching rules for my own needs makes me a better person. The reviewer who described this author as a snake-oil salesman is right - and if you buy this book, you'll do nothing to help yourself.

Ferriss's cynicism is alarming. He doesn't seem to acknowledge the possibility of making money in a fun and meaningful way, and he certainly doesn't give advice in that vein.

First off this book is not a get rich scheme, although I can see how that impression is easily given, it's a book about how to rearrange your life in such a way as to give more time and energy to what is important and less time to what isn't. The author goes into details about an internet business strategy that can lead to wealth, and while it's true any business can lead to wealth, an internet based business can be set up in such a way as to lead to more free time to pursue other things besides making money. WOW! I need to set up an assistant business. She had just turned thirteen and was becoming acutely aware of fashion and the marketers were acutely aware of her becoming acutely aware. She asks to go look at some clothes and I said it would be fine. Well Mr Ferriss does no different. Both fail to mention the huge casualty rates, in Maximus's gamble, or the utter impossibility of widespread success in Mr Ferriss's.




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