4-hour work week no, but I know pretty many people that wait to vest on 4-hour workdays.
Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#22No, but my grandfather owned a successful restaurant. Invested all the profits into real estate. Built an empire of 5mil+ as a Mexican immigrant. Towards the end, he had everything pretty automated by people he hired. Property managers for the rentals and a mix of family and a good restaurant manager for the restaurant. He would just come in on Sundays to count the money/accounting. Side note. Our entire family has b…
That turned dark real quick.
Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#23A friend of mine is - she trained to become a Pilates instructor a number of years ago. Now she does 2 group classes a week (corporate clients) of 1 hour each, earns about $300 per class. That's enough for her to live on.
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#24The point of this book like many other books "get rich quick and work less", is to make the author richer. If you're successful, people will most likely listen to you. So, you need to be successful in some way in real life and if you do, Tim showed you how to leverage a success into a great business model. This helped him generating more income by documenting his journey to a larger audience. So, the content of his b…
This is why I consciously avoid absolutely anything Ferris is involved with. You can immediately know that it will be something of no real substance designed to sell subscriptions to a monthly razor service.
It's rather unfair to call Ferris out as disingenuous or a snake-oil guy. I believe he genuinely thinks he is helping people, and there are actually some pretty fascinating interviewees and conversations on his podcast. If I have to fast-forward over some ads then so be it.
Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, was it a video course or some ebook? How did you do the marketing?
It was a video course. Without divulging too much, I Googled around and found some sites that had massive audiences that were similar to the audience I was targeting with my course. I contacted them and they cut me a deal to distribute my course to their audience. That brought in tens of thousands of students in the first year alone.
Why not divulging too much? Anyway thanks for your story.
Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#26I’m living 4 hour work week and it’s one of the best books that ever helped me. Just use the advices in the book, pretty simple. I spend most of these days working on side projects, feels great! This also allowed me to earn a lot of money, so definitely not downshifting.
Actually kinda amazed that there aren’t many similar people in the thread...I can email you from a public address, it would prove I have a real reputation and not just Tim’s paid commenter.
Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I consciously avoid absolutely anything Ferris is involved with. You can immediately know that it will be something of no real substance designed to sell subscriptions to a monthly razor service.
It's rather unfair to call Ferris out as disingenuous or a snake-oil guy. I believe he genuinely thinks he is helping people, and there are actually some pretty fascinating interviewees and conversations on his podcast. If I have to fast-forward over some ads then so be it.
I mean, the only good podcast ads are Bill Burr's anyway.
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#28No, but my grandfather owned a successful restaurant. Invested all the profits into real estate. Built an empire of 5mil+ as a Mexican immigrant. Towards the end, he had everything pretty automated by people he hired. Property managers for the rentals and a mix of family and a good restaurant manager for the restaurant. He would just come in on Sundays to count the money/accounting. Side note. Our entire family has b…
Typical indian story
Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#29The point of this book like many other books "get rich quick and work less", is to make the author richer. If you're successful, people will most likely listen to you. So, you need to be successful in some way in real life and if you do, Tim showed you how to leverage a success into a great business model. This helped him generating more income by documenting his journey to a larger audience. So, the content of his b…
Ferriss admitted to "hacking" the title because of Google search rankings: http://boingboing.net/2010/10/25/howto-use-google-adw.html
Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
#30The point of this book like many other books "get rich quick and work less", is to make the author richer. If you're successful, people will most likely listen to you. So, you need to be successful in some way in real life and if you do, Tim showed you how to leverage a success into a great business model. This helped him generating more income by documenting his journey to a larger audience. So, the content of his b…
I think the main value of books like these, including books on diets or exercise, is inspiration. After you've read 4 hour work week you probably come away with an increased determination to run your own business. That more than any concrete advice it contains would be what recommends it to readers I think.