What I Read in August
Just out of curiosity, did you make any reading resolutions at the beginning of the year?
I read somewhere that fitness, money, and reading goals are at the top of the list for most common resolutions, and since I made a resolution that pretty much ping-ed each of those, I'm wondering if you do too.
I am currently at 32 books read of my goal to read 52, so I'm on course, but barely, so I'm doggedly trying to keep up and not lose any steam.
The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
There are definitely some inspiring takeaways here, but I'll be honest that it doesn't seem realistic, especially if you're not interested in being an entrepreneur.
What I can get behind is Ferriss' (and probably most people's) idea that life is not about chasing money and we should not define ourselves by what we do for a living. We need money to live, and that's kind of the extent of it.
We agree on the value of our time, but unless you want to own a business and farm out all of the work to folks in other countries who will work for $5/hour, it just doesn't feel like an actionable dream. Most of us work for someone, and frankly I enjoy the security of someone else being responsible for keeping a business in motion, so this book wasn't really written for me.
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