Comments on: Four Hour Work Week – My Arse!

By: Cath Duncan

Cath Duncan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:26:21 +0000

I totally agree. The title is misleading since it's obvious that Tim worked his butt off to set up his drug company initially – in fact he talks about how burnt out he was as a result. And he still works damn hard at the stuff he does these days – speaking, writing, researching experiments with pushing the boundaries the abilities of the mind and body, networking… I think the real value in his book is in the example of identifying and challenging limiting assumptions about what work is, where you get your income, how you spend your time, how much money you need to enjoy life and so on.

People will always fall for the ideal of the opportunity to earn loads of cash doing very little work. That's not new and Tim smartly tapped into that with his title. It is possible to set up sources of automated income, but any significant business will take some serious investment of time (or money to pay for other people's time so you can get them to set it up for you) at the outset.

By: Grant R. Nieddu

Grant R. Nieddu — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:45:53 +0000

Bam!

Nailed it, Andrew! I have learned to read the gurus, get pumped, let it pour over me, then filter it with, Yeah, but how did they REALLY do it.

I spend tons of time reading background on these people to get an accurate picture of what actually happened. A new book, The Leap (I think) covers some of the real stories to great success stories.

Keep sparking it up, man!

Grant

By: Dena

Dena — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:24 +0000

Andrew,

I’ve not yet read it. I’ve thought about it a few hundred times; but I’ve just been to skeptical. However, now having this preface I think it might be time to.. borrow it from the library.

Thanks for a great post.

Cheers!
Dena

By: Nick Bryan

Nick Bryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:50:12 +0000

To be honest, the above review just confirms my annoyance with all such books: They claim to offer to tell you how to become an entrepenuer machine, but skip gleefully over the part where you have to make up a product people actually want to buy it. And manufacture it. And sell it.

Then, once you’re pretty much rich, you can stop working quite so hard. Gosh, did I already know that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:13:27 +0000

Have to agreed with a legitimate product. Everyone in the internet world knows there are a few… ’sore points’ out there; weight loss, happiness, get rich now, so any product aimed at that market already has a credit card ready audience.

The ‘legitimate’ product stands out for me. Then we could team up and write an eBook on how to make a legitimate product? haha.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:08:06 +0000

Hi Tony,

Thanks for reading. Yeh man it’s a bit wrong, blogs about how to blog, or I could sell you an eBook about how to sell eBooks, it’s the pyramid scheme of the 90’s. You’ll enjoy having a read of this -> http://rulesoptional.com/blogging-is-a-ponzi-scheme-2/ Much better said over there.

Andrew

By: James NomadRip

James NomadRip — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:21:00 +0000

Tim works hard. Hard work doesn’t sell as well as freedom and “new rich”.

Kind of like how they don’t promote lottery tickets based on the minuscule chances of winning.

By: Andrew MacPherson

Andrew MacPherson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:01:20 +0000

I took the whole supplement story as a cautionary tale of what not to do. Basically, he’s saying what he learned from making a ton of mistakes so the rest of us don’t have to.

What I took away from it was to structure the processes properly before you build them so you don’t end up on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Here’s another post on Corbett’s blog that covers a similar topick… Check it…
http://www.freepursuits.com/the-4-hour-work-week-is-a-bunch-of-hype-but-thats-not-the-point

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:37:07 +0000

Hahaha

“writing some fluffy self help eBook about freeing himself from work and how you can to, by buying the fluffy eBook, which is about how to write your own fluffy eBook and sell it”

I love it.

Gary Vaynerchuk explains it well by saying you just need to work your ass off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhqZ0RU95d4&feature=player_embedded

I’ve got a few things in the works, including drop shipping, coupon sites, and maybe starting a blog. I figure if I work my ass off, something will pay off and create some passive income.

By: Royce Fullerton

Royce Fullerton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:04:14 +0000

These are great points that I definitely agree with, especially about the fluffy eBook market. His book did get me fired up about the prospect of being able to fund my ideal lifestyle. Now I just need to find my own way to execute, so I guess you could say that I am still searching for my elusive muse but I want to do it with a legitimate product that I am passionate about.