Comments on: The Hard Truth About the 4-Hour Workweek

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By: Pinar Tarhan

Pinar Tarhan — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:41:00 +0000

Hi Sylvia, sorry to respond so late. I’m still figuring out how Disqus works. Personally I prefer the good old Commentluv or just leaving your URL, name, address.:) I like his tips and how many things he has accomplished. What I find next to impossible, however, is his tips for learning a new language. I think it takes years, unless you are trained by Jack Bauer under extreme circumstances or something…:)

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By: Sylvia Rytarowska

Sylvia Rytarowska — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:25:00 +0000

Thank you Fab Farn. I read Seth Godin’s blog and after each post I’m impressed withe the simplicity and truth

By: Fab Farn

Fab Farn — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:18:00 +0000

Type on Google: Tim Ferris charlatan and you’ll get a lot of results!!

Why?

Because the truth is very, very different:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/05/how-to-make-money-online.html

Hence, type on Google: Seth Godin charlatan and you won’t get any result!!

What a weird coincidence…!!

All the best

Fab

PS congratulations for your very good article!

By: Sylvia Rytarowska

Sylvia Rytarowska — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:11:00 +0000

Hi Pinar. Great comment! Personally, I don’t like his books (it seems like cherry-picking* to me) but I appreciate his freshness and originality. They were definitely a new phenomenon and how they sell says a lot about our modern society. How we struggle with our lives and seek ways out. I think the only way out is through.

By: Sylvia Rytarowska

Sylvia Rytarowska — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:00:00 +0000

Hi there, thank you for the comment.

By: Sylvia Rytarowska

Sylvia Rytarowska — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:57:00 +0000

Thanks Samuel,
Tim Ferris is a very diligent guy and he believes in his ideas. He likes experimenting and pushing his limits. I like that. The books, however, are not for me.

By: Sylvia Rytarowska

Sylvia Rytarowska — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:49:00 +0000

Thank you Ibrahim. I agree.
Personally, I don’t agree with many of Tim’s ideas.

As for his recent work, I teach speed reading and memory techniques, plus I’m a linguist, so I’ve been practising the things he writes about on a daily basis. I felt disappointed when I read his latest book and listened to him speak about learning. Tim Ferris experiments with his abilities and writes about his experiences and observations. That is definitely the profile of all his endeavours so far. The essence and gist of his books is being advertised in an oversimplified way, as you said. I don’t believe his tips are practical. Especially about learning a language. They’re out of context for people like me.

By: Pinar Tarhan

Pinar Tarhan — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:19:00 +0000

Actually I love the book. I can imagine he’s not working just 4 hours a week since he does run a successful blog, writes bestsellers and does some other stuff, but I never took 4 hours so literally. For most people, even 4 hours a day would be a dream come true, especially since they can do it remotely. And not everyone can or should work only 4 hours a week. I agree with King, but then writing is a passion, a compulsion. I don’t consider it working, especially if I’m writing fiction. But Ferriss does have great pointers, explained step by step, on how to cut back your working hours significantly, how you can have a “rich” person’s life without being rich – and he does include real life experiences about that. The main idea is that you shouldn’t devote yourself to a job you hate or wait until 60 to have a retirement check.

By: MrTimesizingdotcom

MrTimesizingdotcom — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:58:00 +0000

Here’s a comment from the viewpoint of economic design (like the framers of the Constitution except they were into political design). One of the big mistakes of previous attempts to design a full-employment economy based on workweek reduction (to spread the diminishing human employment as automation and robotization takes over more and more types of jobs) has been the idea that we have to stop absolutely EVERYbody from working any longer than the workweek ceiling, whatever it comes down to. But we do not want to stop the people who love their job, like Stephen King as Sylvia mentions. So how do we separate them from the others? Easy. People who love their job aren’t doing it for the money. They’d do it for less. Soooo, just require reinvestment of overtime earnings in the job, in sharing the job, the passion, with others = in overtime-targeted training and hiring. This is the core of Phase 3 of the Timesizingdotcom Program on page Timesizing.com/1jobins.htm – enjoy.]

By: Samuel

Samuel — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:31:00 +0000

A thought-provoking post right here on Brazen.

It made me think and I could see myself agreeing with some of the points.

When you love what you do, you can’t go one day without working on your goals.

Look, I find it amazing how Tim Ferris’s book became a huge success. He worked hard for it and I only congratulate him.

Thanks for the post!

- Sam

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:33:00 +0000

My problem with the 4 hour work week is Tim Ferris knowingly sales an over simplified dream. The book has some good nuggets of information but it primarily plays on people’s longing to escape boring, unsatisfying work by telling them “you can do these simple things and live the life you want just like me!”