Hello and welcome to capitalism the book, where your goal after reading will be the exploit other people so that you can go off and spend money living however you like. Fancy lying to your employer and risking everything? Then this book may be for you. It’s maybe a nice idea for some but if everyone followed this book there would be no one left working and I just didn’t really morally agree with what Ferriss was arguing for. 

I will admit that it what I was was expecting. I work in patient-contact healthcare in the NHS, so this book does not apply to me currently. I enjoy what I do and there is no way for me to work from home for a minimal number as is suggested. I thought the book would have more applicable real-world tricks to streamline your day in a way other than setting up your own business and delegating to others, but that’s pretty much all this book was (with maybe a few tips on improving your reading speed and improving your efficiency when travelling etc.). 

There were some cool and interesting stories and quotes, and I can see how a lot of the websites/resources would be helpful, even if you weren’t following the instructions in the book, but I can’t lie, it really just turned into background noise a lot of the time for me when I was listening to the audiobook. 

The delivery and writing style was pretty funny, but especially towards the end, it just felt like basically a big promotion for Ferriss’ blog. At almost 500 pages (13 hours of listening time!) the book felt like a massive waste of time and a contradiction of itself so I do regret slaving through it and probably should’ve DNF’d at some point early on. 

Oh well, I’m sure it will be just the trick for some people, but I. Not one of those right now.