Been reading The 4-hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss (see The 4-hour Work Week). It’s a pretty unconventional book, but very inspiring.
In a nutshell, the book mainly advocates aggressive time management to delegate as much of your responsibility as you can elsewhere, entrepreneurship to free yourself from the 9-to-5, and taking small “mini-retirements” throughout your life rather than working like a animal for forty years until you hopefully have enough to retire at sixty. There’s a lot more to it than that, of course, but that’s the meat-and-potatoes of the content. Ferriss refers to it as “Lifestyle design,” and I’ll be the first to admit, it’s a very appealing concept.
Are the suggestions Tim makes actually realistic? Good question; so far, my thought is that a lot of people will read them, think that they are not feasible, and not do any of them. A lot of others will read it, think that it could be done, but still not do it.
Whether or not it’s all really doable, I think it will still inspire a lot of people to try to become entrepreneurs, and really, isn’t that what a book like this is for? You can’t actually accomplish anything without trying (the canonical advice from Yoda notwithstanding), so I hardly think it a bad thing to encourage people to take steps to reach for their dreams.
Hat tip to Ramit Sethi for recommending the book.
