The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007), Timothy Ferriss
My wife read Timothy Ferriss' best-selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, first. Then, a good friend brought it up in conversation. Honestly, I was not looking forward to it, because they both told me that I had done some of the things Ferriss recommended in the book. I'm glad they convinced me otherwise. I highly recommend this book, but I recommend you don't read it close to bedtime...you may not get much sleep!
The 4-Hour Workweek is a very, very, very practical piece of work that will speak loudly to performance-based Gen-Xers. I believe the ideas Timothy shares will resonate through the cubicle maze halls of companies led by old school "leaders". The book takes you through 4 parts of the D-E-A-L explaining how to become a member of the NR or New Rich the basic premise being how to utilize technology to maximize profit and reduce overhead on a personal level. The best part of the 4-Hour Workweek is what is missing in most ideological books, and that is real world information. Each chapter is loaded down with real working resources complete with the url and descriptions of their function as part of Ferriss' master plan.
Will reading this book make you one of the New Rich? Absolutely not. Getting there will take discipline, committment and work, and that is why Timothy's ideas are resilient. Not everyone will read this book and not everyone will have what it takes to commit to his ideas. Even now, if you are feeling like "ugh! I was hoping it would be easy" well it is and even if you don't embrace the whole manifesto you will most likely benefit from a subset of the ideas he lays out.
I, also, commend Ferriss on a book well-written. The plain language style was very easy to read and interesting. I felt as if I could understand exactly where he was coming from since it wasn't written in some lofty, "take me seriously because I'm an author" tone. Congratulations on a book well-written!