Hm. The people that hate/don't like T. Ferriss: Can you summarize in one sentence why?
(I understand that we sometimes just don't like people for no conscious reason, perhaps some of you failed following his book, but there must be more?)
(I understand that we sometimes just don't like people for no conscious reason, perhaps some of you failed following his book, but there must be more?)
Most 'self help gurus' just prey on the stupid.
Encouraging large volumes of people to buy books with ideas which don't scale is pretty selfish, because with each additional book sale, while you make money, the value of the ideas contained in the book become less valuable. Lots of business self help books are pyramid like in that sense...
EDIT: it seems Ferris is helping people figure out how to "Skip the Water": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099453
Still I fill very allergic to all this positive thinking, self-help, goal-achieving and motivation literature. The skeptic in me just cannot stand it, everybody who writes it automatically gets "scam" mark from me. I'd rather suggest reading something like "Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" by Barbara Ehrenreich instead.