A Pre-Emptive Book Review
I’m intrigued. Art of Money has recommended a book called Four-Hour Work Week (pictured left, with affiliate link cunningly inserted, mwa-haha). I haven’t read it yet but I clicked the Amazon link and spent too long reading the reviews. Then I went to Timothy Ferriss’s website to read more.
He sounds extraordinary. I’m going to buy the book, and I promise to use your affiliate link, Jon, but before I blog about anything I have actual knowledge of I thought it would be worth taking a preliminary look at this “life-changing” book near the top of Amazon’s Bestseller list, and at the so-called “Indiana Jones of the Digital Age”. I want that title! Or perhaps, “The Garfield of the Digital Age.”
Interesting Facts About Timothy Ferriss (as reported on his website):
- He speaks six languages
- He’s been a cage fighter in Japan
- He holds a Guinness World Record for Tango
- He’s an actor, an author, a wealthy businessman, a keen traveler and sportsman
- He’s 29, just like me. Only blonder and wealthier.
Things I have already learned from Timothy Ferriss:
- Outsource everything overseas. Hrm. I seem to have outsourced myself overseas.
- Don’t work too hard. Okay then.
- Check your email only twice a day at the most. Now that’s just insane and impossible. Can’t be done.
- Learn to tango. I tried this once in Argentina but it was a disaster. The only world record I would accomplish is treading on one person’s toes the most times in under a minute.
First impressions from learning about Timothy Ferriss:
- I want to be just like him! But that’s not really true. I can’t stand sports, I already travel a lot, I’ve already learned six languages (though I can only claim fluency in two tops), and I would get tired doing all that stuff. But I would like to write a book and work more effectively and inspire people.
- He’s talked himself up. Probably, but browsing his blog there’s a fair amount of video evidence that suggests he has actually done all the stuff he says he has. Crikey. Although the tango world record didn’t look hard.
- He’s super-media savvy. He even has a page on his site offering to let bloggers interview him. Aww, what a nice guy!
- He doesn’t need coffee. He has more energy than a caffeinated puppy.
Okay, so I’ll read the book and report back. Anyone else read it yet?
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Friday, May 18th, 2007 at 8:27 am
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Hey Rich,
Just a recommendation, in your link to sites such as Art of Money you should consider linking to the post directly instead of the main blog for two reasons
1) Easier for your readers to navigate to the page they want to
2) place a trackback on their page and hopefully draw some visitors to your site.
Anyways just a thought. I haven’t read the book yet but am considering it based on the buzz I’ve read in the blogosphere
May 19th, 2007 at 7:09 pmHi Scott,
Good point, thanks. I’ll edit the link.
Yeah lots of bloggers are talking about the book. It’s marketing 2.0! Very clever.
May 19th, 2007 at 9:07 pm