Women and children can be careless, but not men.
Don Corleone
I see you, Tim Ferriss lover. You’re already defending the guy…
Let me go back. I was a waiter once, taking orders, spitting in food, and doing a little blow after work with the hostess. Actually, no, that wasn’t me, that was a movie. I was just bringing the food out in a polite manner hoping for a couple bucks to be left on the table when the assholes — and their kid who threw the crayons on the floor — departed the establishment. And the hostess was fat. I digress. The manager would often sit us down for little pep talks before we opened up the halls of the trough. He had read the back cover of a book I think, and he liked to say, “Use at least three sizzle words when you first speak to a new group of customers, don’t sell food, sell the idea of the food.” It’s actually a ubiquitous theme if you’ve read anything in marketing or sales. The manager would walk by listening to everyone sing the sizzle words to the customers, “Welcome to Blahblahblah, would you like to try our South Bay fresh fish catch or the pasture grazed signature steak served on a bed of succulent oyster reduction glaze and topped off with a special side of Irish garlic potatoes created tonight by our resident chef?”
Hungry, aren’t you? Well, the reality is that most of the stuff was boiled in a bag by some finger-licking degenerate in the back, not a white hat-wearing chef with the manicured hands. The floor was disgusting, the waiters were sweating, the cooks were sweating, the trash was overflowing, the dishwasher was illegal. That was the reality, but you didn’t want reality with your food, you wanted sizzle.
Enter Tim Ferriss. Tim has some good ideas, he’s a sharp guy. That’s about where Tim’s ideas are going to stop for average Joe. You see, Tim is smart. Smarter than me, and I’m going to venture so far, reader, to say that his gray matter is of a better quality than even yours. I’ll go another step and assert that Tim probably hails from an established, moderately wealthy family with a connection or two. Tim attended a private high school called St. Paul’s Boarding School. To quickly show you the difference between your high school and Tim’s, his has a $24 million dollar gym and a long list of notable graduates, yours does not. Following St. Paul’s, Tim headed over to Princeton and completed his formal academic training receiving a signed parchment from an Ivy League institution, also known as the ‘Golden Ticket of the West’. Following his academic pursuits. he seems to have made a comfortable living doing things that didn’t require too much face time with ‘The Man’. That’s easy to assume given the picture of easy circumstances, first-rate educational experience, and the connections of a moderately wealthy Northeastern family. Stay with me, you needed this background portrait.
Tim thinks you can quit your stupid job working for ‘The Man’, travel, work smart, and forge your own reality while virtual assistants in Mumbai sort through your Post-It Notes. Oh yeah, and Tim will try to convince you that you can do it without his background and titles… sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. Would a crowd of hand amputees believe me if I told them I have fingers that type 75 words per minute, and I can train them to do it too — the fingers aren’t really that important? If I had the right sizzle, and if they were the right amputees, you’re damn right they would believe me. Tim had a flash of brilliance (or maybe it was more of a steady flood light) in which he realized that if he could mix enough simple productivity advice with a touch of escapism, served on a bed of sizzle, he could hit the best-seller list. Everyone would believe if he could just find the right combination of sizzle.
The problem here is that average Joe probably can’t sell sizzle like Tim. Tim’s book is a good read because it makes you feel like there is some alternate reality that you can beam up to, and maybe YOU can. You may have what it takes. The majority, including me, will send Tim our money, read his book and head back to work. Why? Because I am not Tim, and I’ll speculate that you are not Tim. Tim has the brain power of two of you, credentials from Princeton, a wealthy family behind him and a charismatic personality to go with it. Nearly anything Tim wanted to write about or do, given it had a certain flavor of legitimacy, was bound to be a hit. Don’t feel bitter, I’m not done.
Your childhood teacher may have told you that you could be an astronaut or the President; she may have even had posters on the wall that said little witty phrases about being what you wanted to be with a big astronaut bouncing on the moon in the background. You see? You’ve been trained to buy the sizzle from the beginning, so it’s pretty damn easy for you. Tim knows it, because he’s smart. Tim knows sizzle like Bill Gates knows PC, the difference in the business model being that Tim is good at sizzle, whereas Bill made his money by making little porn machines in his ‘garage’ (I know, technically it was Windows… bear with the loose analogy). There was more money for Bill in selling porn machines than writing books about how other people could build garage porn machines, so he just sold you a machine. Tim figured out an ingenious way of making money with nearly no overhead — selling sizzle books. Then he sold them to you. And you loved it.
I’m not telling you to avoid Tim’s material. I’ve read it and it really is, if nothing else, thought-provoking reading by my humble estimation. What I’m telling you is that you becoming Tim’s protégé likely won’t happen, so don’t quit your day job and move to Chiang Mai, Thailand on a quest to be like Tim. Yes, that was a blatant hit at Frost, Freedom Twenty-Five author and In Mala Fide contributor.
I admire Frost’s bold move, and you should check out his page because he’s a good writer. That said, I’m going to use Frost as an example, because he offers us a relevant case study. He’s a young guy living in the West, educated at what I would guess to be a decent state school, middle class background, reasonable intelligence, and wants to improve his existence. He also appears to be a rabid Tim Ferriss believer, and wishes to follow in Tim’s successful footsteps — who can blame him? Now, I want you to compare Frost’s bio with Tim’s and keep that in mind while I rub on my crystal ball. Frost, I foresee, will end up having a great travel experience and will probably write a decent e-book regarding his time spent globehopping. The book will be an okay read and have some interesting anecdotes, but overall, will fail to support him financially. He’ll rationalize why he wasn’t able to set up successful online business ventures and write books like Tim does to support his vagabond lifestyle. Eventually, he’ll return to a more typical occupation and a fixed living situation and write his travelling off as an exciting experience.
The desire to travel and feel free from the need of living life as a consuming, sniveling sycophant to some corporate slave master (read: supervisor) is understandable — it isn’t fun, but that’s why they (over)pay you for it. Travel for young men has been advocated for a long time, for instance, reference the ‘Grand Tour’ that was popular for European men in the 17thand 18th centuries. Nothing rounds someone out like a little time traveling. Traveling, however, and living the ‘Ferriss Fantasy’ are two different animals.
I don’t advocate the vagabond, anti-American (in a geographical sense) entrepreneurial fantasy that is in vogue now. The truth is that most people are average, you’re more likely to succeed in a rooted area where your contacts reside, the world economy sucks, competition is fierce, and this is likely the worst time to burn employment bridges. If you want to try out some extended traveling opportunities, go for it, but don’t accept unrealistic ideas sold by charlatans. Be bold, not reckless. That is, unless you have the Tim Ferris royal flush poker hand, in which case, it really doesn’t matter how you bluff, does it?
…the more favored a man is by Fortune, the more fastidiously sensitive is he; and, unless all things answer to his whim, he is overwhelmed by the most trifling misfortunes, because he is utterly unschooled in adversity. So petty are the trifles which rob the most fortunate of perfect happiness!
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Regards,
J.W. Black
Cross-posted at Fortune Favors Boldness.
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Quality writing, Mr Black.
Good article. I call them PUTs or Pick Up plus Travel guys. It’s been a popular genre. G manifesto, Herbal and Roosh have also pushed the same idea. Today there are others.
The big idea is for a kid who is beta to leave the states and make his fortune abroad, giving the system the finger. Herbal and Roosh were able to do this because people buy their books.
Maybe we should talk about Frost. I know that these kids today know it all and would never take the advise of their elders. Men who have been expats in Thailand for a long time already know what happens. The farang gets used to easy living and easy pussy. It’s happened a thousand times.
http://www.stickmanbangkok.com/reader/reader37.html
Simon Rierdon learned a very specialized piece of knowledge, worked in Germany for a couple of decades, and retired recently. I think he’s late 40′s. Here’s his blog:
http://veritasaculeus.wordpress.com/
I have long been on the hunt for the one specialized skill that earns me 100 an hour (minimum) and brings me to exotic places. In fact, I’ve been quite a “job tourist” in my life — I’ve been a Maytag man, IT, office manager, farmer, funeral director, translator/interpreter (Russian/English). I never divulge my latest plans, but suffice to say I am working on a set of skills that builds on what I already have learned.
The point is — make sure to study math and get a technical/scientific/engineering background, so you can specialize in that one thing that only 10 other people do, and pays 200 (or more) an hour. Simon did it. It’s certainly possible if you have above average intelligence.
His advice is thin in the income area, you can tell that quickly if you have experience. He didn’t print enough info on the PPC ads section, though he would have to keep it regularly updated on his website if he did.
Honestly, you shouldn’t expect to learn the insides of business in an international and extremely competitive market from the sparse hundred or so pages he devotes to it. Though they weren’t per se looking to learn a business.
As for Thailand not wanting to work with Westerners, well shit that’s the norm everywhere. No one wants you to encroaching on their territory. They don’t like you taking their money, women, housing, ect… even if it means more opportunity in the long run.
If this is all wrong because of his brain power and resources… what would be right?
The key for success for the stupid and poor?
So would you celebrate a book about a stupid and poor amputee who made it big? Or would you be saying thats such a rare thing you cant do that either?
I dont like Tim Ferris particularly, but we would be better adapting / taking ideas / seeing what fits / instead of listings all the reasons why we cant (unless thats a fix todo list )
The coolest thing about Tim Ferris is that he was following Ferdinand or this site on Twitter. I discovered the man a few months ago when he was going on different podcasts to promote his latest book. I became a fan at first (Joe Rogan), but then something felt off (Adam Carolla). I got the sense that he wrote 4-Hour Work Week before he had another book’s worth of original thought so he bullshat his way through it. I’ve not read it though.
“Eventually, [Frost will] return to a more typical occupation and a fixed living situation and write his travelling off as an exciting experience.”
Likely, though in the end it’ll be worth doing it. At least if it doesn’t turn he won’t be wondering for the rest of his life What If? Years from now he’ll look back on it with pride and amusement.
The thing I don’t understand though is Frost is pretty much directly copying Roosh’s model of writing books and selling them on the internet. For one you have to be an extremely gifted writer, a second have a very large following. And then you’ll always lose hundreds or thousands of sales by people reselling your book or torrenting it online. It is TOUGH stuff. I’ve talked to a NY Times bestselling author about this. He goes through a publishing house though, but he’ll make very little on each book and he isn’t rich even though he comes out with a great book every year. He makes most of his money giving speeches, not through selling books.
I just hope Frost was smart enough to have a Plan B in case the difficult task of publishing books can’t support him. Best of luck to him.
This is an interesting post.
I think young unencumbered people are in the best position to explore life and all its possibilities. That said, there does need to be a realistic understanding that not everyone is starting out with the advantages of a Tim Ferriss.
Our culture is conditioned to teach kids and young people that they can be whatever they want. We have a family friend who had to crush his son’s dreams to play in the NBA by saying straight out: “Son, you are a mediocre basketball player who has only seen the bit of success you have because everyone else on your team is an even worse player than you are.”
He took a lot of heat for that but his son was seriously of the mind that he had a shot at the big leagues even though the most talented ballers have a one in a million chance of making it.
Someone needs to be willing to tell young people the truth: Very few of us are destined for greatness, and very few of us will live out our deepest fantasies, and that’s okay.
Trying > not trying. Period.
That out, rushing in blind is madness.
Nah.
Tim Ferriss got lucky. He had one idea for a book, did a pretty good job writing and sold it hard before the idea of every last idiot setting up websites took off.
Now, there is so much information out there telling people to do exactly what Tim Ferriss told people to do that his book is redundant.
However, the problem with his book, and all the blogs telling you to do the same thing, is that the basic idea doesn’t work. To wit, finding a unique idea to flog through a website is almost impossible. The best you can hope for is to be one of the thousands trying to do the same thing. Your earnings will be a pittance. Great web design, well targeted ads good SEO will all help, but it won’t allow you to retire.
Trying > not trying. Period.
I agree completely. My point was that learning to be content and doing your best to find fulfillment in the context of life’s journey wherever you are is better than pining for something that may or may not ever happen.
That, and accepting that we all have weaknesses as well as strengths. A smart person is familiar with all of his or hers and learns how to maximize his abilities instead of grasping for what some other person says they need to do to have “really lived.”
I skimmed through it but but had to point he didn’t come from a wealthy family. He has even pointed out in his book how much his parent’s made and he was maybe upper middle class at best, so I don’t know where you keep getting he was from a wealthy family?
Good article. Tim Ferris reminds me of every smarmy fuck who gets everything thanks to their parents’ connections and has the nerve to call less fortunate people lazy for not being better off.
With regards to Mr. Frost, I tried living and working in the third world, but that didn’t work out. I lived in Peru and was there for thereal estate boom they had a couple of years back. Despite being the top guy at the firm and being the only one who could speak several languages, I had to work twice as much just to make half of what I made here.
So, this post is complete mindless bullshit. The only arguments against Tim I see here is that 1) he’s richer than you, 2) he has an ivy league education, 3) he’s better connected than you are and 4) he gets shit done. Wait, aren’t those supposed to be positives? His parents weren’t rich nor did they have contacts, he paid his own way through school, he spent years after graduating working himself to the bone building up his company and then he sold it for a solid chunk of money. Now, he uses the money and connections to sell books.
Is he completely full of shit? Maybe. But there are more than a few companies around making useful stuff because of Tim’s book. There are also more than a few companies making useless, cheap shit people don’t need. YMMV, but to dismiss everything this guy says just because he’s “smug” shows a lack of critical thinking that’s appalling. I expect non-thinking shit like this from Jezebel, not IMF.
@unfrozencaveman you’re giving an opinion on a book you haven’t read yet that just happens to confirm the OP’s opinion. Are you getting paid, or are you just a spineless, suggestible weasel?
@thunear you did a lot of critical thinking and researching, did you? Like the fact Tim released 3 books, not just one. He didn’t just get lucky, unless you’re proposing he got lucky three times in a row? And clearly there’s no way to make a decent living selling stuff online. We’ll just tell everybody on kickstarter to pack up their bags and go home. (and before you say kickstarter is a one time deal only, there are more than a couple of businesses who are now in full swing who got their start on kickstarter. Dodocase specifically was featured on ferriss’s website in July 2010 and they are still going strong).
Greetings from Sihanoukville, Cambodia!
This is an excellent post. There are indeed a large and growing number of websites out there that purport to teach you how to make money online by – teaching others how to make money online! Gary Vaynerchuck, The Art of Non-Comformity, Advanced Riskology – all of these guys are worth a read, but I take them with a grain of salt. Check out Dan Andrews’ Tropical MBA and Sean Ogle’s blog for examples of guys who are living the 4HWW dream by doing something other than blogging.
As for me, I’m certainly not making enough money off of book sales and affiliate commissions to live the international playboy lifestyle, but I am making enough to travel slowly and like a bum. And this is despite:
1) Having written a far inferior book than I could have (I still think it’s pretty good, but the 2nd edition will be radically different), and
2) Doing an absolutely piss-poor job of marketing it.
I’m coming to the end of my fast-paced ‘vacation’ month of traveling, and am looking forward to putting down some roots for a few months in various cities and grinding out F25 2.0, a new book, and a few other projects that I have a lot of confidence in. By the end of it, I think I’ll be able to say that I am making a good-to-great living, from anywhere in the world I want to be, doing something I love. It’s taken (and will continue to take) a ton of work, but it’s possible.
As I said though, I agree with a lot of your points. Leaving the desk job grind isn’t easy – I wrote shitty stories, articles and blog posts for years before I created anything that anyone wanted to read. Even still, I’ve only ‘made it’ by a laughably easy standard.
I also 100% agree that you should always try to avoid burning bridges whenever possible. In my juvenile angst phase, I flirted briefly with the scorched earth approach to my old job. Fortunately, calmer heads prevailed and the door back to that life is still wide open. I’m (perhaps irrationally) confident that I will make it as a writer, but even if I don’t, I’ve got an alternative to giving handjobs for crack in a back alley somewhere.
But all that said, I think you are too pessimistic. I come from a lower-middle class background, and went to the Canadian equivalent of a tier-2 state school for undergrad, and that has certainly closed a few doors for me in life. Even though I did my post-grad at a fairly elite school, I went something like 0/100 in my job applications to the elite banks and consulting firms in the world. Many of the traditional, 20th-century paths to wealth and fame are closed to me.
But alternative careers don’t have the same barriers to entry. On the internet, no one knows that you’re a dog – or that you went to public school. The only real barriers are a lack of intelligence and conscientiousness. Not to be a dick, but I consider myself smarter than the vast majority of people, and I have taken a few tests that back my assessment up. If Tim Ferriss were honest, he would include the disclaimer that his advice is only useful for 120 IQ-plus folks, but do you need connections and an IV league degree to start a website? Nope.
Anyways, I can hash out my reasons for why I think the 4HWW offers a valid alternative to men like us, but at the end of the day, I rest my case on this: I have met dozens of guys out here in Asia who REALLY ARE living incredible lives with location-independent businesses. I’ve met a few each with their own information products, artists, adsense-generating website builders, SEO guys, writers, poker players, rental property managers, and so on.
I’ve also met quite a few who are traveling on a budget and making ends meet by taking on jobs bartending, working for hostels, deckhands, ski instructors, and even a few tradesmen. I would put these guys in a different category as the true location-independent crowd, since they still often have to work for 10-30 hours a week, but it’s a valid alternative to 9-5 regardless.
This post is a useful counterpoint to the relentless enthusiasm of the majority of lifestyle design writers (including Ferriss), but like them, you go to far. Connecting technologies really are changing the workplace, and many established industries (publishing, music, film, advertising, sales, politics) are going to be radically upset in the coming decades. There’s a lot of opportunity for smart young people with an ability to ignore conventional wisdom (Hey there, IMF readers!) to build empires in those fields.
Cheers,
Frost
Hi Blumel,
Three books. Yeah perhaps. But he got lucky with one. The four-hour body is not highly regarded among people who know what they’re talking about and has a result Ferriss’s reputation has taken a bit of a knock. The sales from it are piggy-backing entirely on the notoriety of the 4HWW.
Hey, but don’t let me burst your fan-boyism.
I understand what Mr. Black is trying to accomplish by writing this article but fundamentally I disagree with the tone as it sounds quite bitter and takes the stance of a man looking down his nose at those less clever and rational than himself. I will agree that the 4HWW and F25 lack much clear direction in terms of how one would actually go about creating their “location independent” business in order to travel and become an international playboy, assuming that is what most of their readers actually want. In reality, the point of these types of books is to expand the readers mind and open them up to the idea of choosing a less defined path in search for something better. That being said, I support that type of goal whole heartedly. Understanding that there is an alternative to the beaten path and working hard to achieve one’s owns goals are cornerstones of being a strong independent man.
I have taken 10 years of industry experience and translated them into a successful online business that I can work from anywhere. I have not decided if I will follow in the footsteps of Roosh and Frost and expat abroad in search of something different or simply stay put and focus on growing the business. The point is that a few years ago, this was not even an option in my mind. I felt trapped and frustrated. Reading about people like Tim Ferris helped me swallow the red pill which lead to more creative thinking which intern has lead me to where I am at today. A successful entrepreneur with options.
He has even pointed out in his book how much his parent’s made and he was maybe upper middle class at best, so I don’t know where you keep getting he was from a wealthy family?
An influential family who could help him, but not necessarily a very wealthy family. It helps to move to places where you have blood relatives, so that you have a built-in set of family connections and can spring off from there.
I’d go abroad again, even if it is risky. It changes your whole outlook on life for the better. Also opens up a wider pool of dating possibilities.
Good Day IMF,
I’d like to add a retort to a few of these comments. First, thanks to most of you for the intelligent conversation on the 4 Hour Work Week and its author.
I want to also tip my hat to Frost for taking in stride my using him as an example case. I won’t bother adding anything lengthy to what he said as it uncovered the article’s main goal – which was to serve as a counter-balance. My own site being titled ‘Fortune Favors Boldness’ (which is nothing more than my personal stone for sharpening my thinking & writing skills), I am playing devil’s advocate here to a certain extent.
To: Yohami, Jared and Blumel:
It appears that possibly you’ve gone overboard with the ‘Information Diet’ recommended by Ferriss and/or you’re trying his speed reading techniques to no avail. To improve your reading comprehension, try reading the full article at a slower pace. As far as Tim Ferriss’s socioeconomic standing and background – I’m only connecting dots here. His high school tuition alone is in the neighborhood of $48,000 per year (http://www.sps.edu/flipbook/financial_aid_booklet1011/index.html), which tells me everything I need to pull out my financial history ‘Jump to Conclusions Mat’. I will acknowledge that I could be wrong on the basis that the educational institutions do offer grants that could account for a large portion of tuition. Between Princeton and St. Paul’s though, we’re talking around half a million U.S. in education that came from somewhere…that’s a lot of grant money. In any case, thank you for reading and commenting.
Regards,
J.W. Black
I recall reading this turd of a book about eighteen months ago. I also recall that my main impression of the book was that it was nothing more than hogwash, a Ponzi scheme of sorts. The reason I concluded this was because a simple question: What would happen if everyone followed this guy’s advice? Answer: everyone would be poor because no one would be producing anything.
Incidentally, this book will hasten the demise of American society because Ferriss is basically encouraging guys to game the system just like he did. There will be some guys who will be able to do so successfully, which means that there will be fewer productive people in the work force, and then the losers who aren’t living cool lives will become resentful and try to copycat, which means that everyone will basically be trying to leach off of people who aren’t being productive. Though I’m being somewhat hyperbolic, this is the general trend of the “do minimal work and travel the world” crowd, and this trend is not a positive one.
This isn’t really about Tim Ferriss. This is about the people who read his book. How many of those do you think now work 4 hours a week? How many copies has Tim sold? A few hundred thousand? A million?
Here is the thing: Nobody who actually knows how to make a lot of money passively will teach you how to. Many will pretend to teach you but that really just means they make their money by pretending to teach you. And it’s usually always the same pitch in some modification. They have no reason to teach you their method, if they have one.
I lived in Peru and was there for the real estate boom they had a couple of years back. Despite being the top guy at the firm and being the only one who could speak several languages, I had to work twice as much just to make half of what I made here.
This. The US is a great place to make money — certainly the easiest in the world if you’re an American (cue hate mail from Latin America) to start with. Foreign countries are great places to spend money, and reasonable places to invest, but terrible places to earn a living. (The exception is if you’re still plugged into the US economy, but working remotely; I know a guy who does contract work for US corporations — at US rates — from Costa Rica.)
There’s a reason people come here looking for work.
Not to be a dick, but I consider myself smarter than the vast majority of people, and I have taken a few tests that back my assessment up.
Too late and we know.
Hmmm i was following you till this part
“He’s a young guy living in the West, educated at what I would guess to be a decent state school, middle class background, reasonable intelligence, and wants to improve his existence. He also appears to be a rabid Tim Ferriss believer, and wishes to follow in Tim’s successful footsteps — who can blame him? Now, I want you to compare Frost’s bio with Tim’s and keep that in mind while I rub on my crystal ball. Frost, I foresee, will end up having a great travel experience and will probably write a decent e-book regarding his time spent globehopping. The book will be an okay read and have some interesting anecdotes, but overall, will fail to support him financially.”
Now by you’re reasoning Roosh is closer to Frost than Tim but how do you explain Roosh being able to fully support this very lifestyle. What you seem to be leaving out or not thinking about is the hard work part… the very hard work part and determination. Yes Frost’s first book will be okay, then his second will be slightly better and if it takes him a years there will be improvements that multiply. Like most things one is passionate about, success wont come over night because it’s a thing that’s learned and earned. The books, blogs and advice of people like Ferris offer little more than a road map
So true, and well said.
A guy at the gym was blathering about Tim Ferriss, so I watched a couple of youtube vids. They SCREAMED fraud at me.
Then I looked up the guy’s book up on Amazon and read the reviews. Wow. Lot’s of 5 star reviews. But wait. Lots of 1 star reviews. (yelling fraud)
hmmm.
I am reminded of the Obama rise. Lots of followers in the background, doing the groundwork, writing the reviews, attacking the attackers, hoping to ride on the coat tails….
There’s a sucker born every minute.
Finally some quality writing at IMF from someone other than FB.
“I don’t advocate the vagabond, anti-American (in a geographical sense) entrepreneurial fantasy that is in vogue now.”
I do.
” The truth is that most people are average, you’re more likely to succeed in a rooted area where your contacts reside, the world economy sucks, competition is fierce, and this is likely the worst time to burn employment bridges. ”
You can do both. One bleeds into the other. I skipped college to work full time for two years in pizza delivery and then I travelled the world as a back packer and volunteering in international NGOs. Oppurtunities opened up for me in many places.
Its exciting and I recommend it to any young person with a sense of adventure and a love for learning about people and cultures.
The big secret is that there is no secret. To be successful one has to work hard. I have not read the Ferriss book, but I am put off by the title. It’s a rendition of the get-rich quick schemes….
Princeton? I don’t think so. If it is as simple as he says why have I not heard of one person who has done what he suggests and succeeded? It is a lovely dream, for those stuck in their corporate-cubicle, but then freedom was a dream for galley-slaves – and all they had to do was out-source their rowing.
I am sure the book has made Ferriss wealthy and famous, but it won’t do that for you – isn’t he also a rather talented Dance Instructor?
“As for Thailand not wanting to work with Westerners, well shit that’s the norm everywhere. ”
Everywhere besides the West, you mean.
White liberals who support multi-culti are massive idiots. Because of them, there won’t be any white countries left very soon.
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