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Shouldn't you read the book before you hate him for it? He goes through what he does the rest of the time. (sports, holiday, fun, learning things etc)

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I read the book, and I hate myself for spending time with that. He is not just a self promoter, he is a liar, he certainly doesn't work 4 hours per week. He may have done it for a small period of time, but how many times per day do you think you need to work to get the self promotion he gets?

The plan of the guy is simple: 1) find something that most people are interested in (working less in this case); 2) Research whatever has been said about the topic and write in a friendly way; 3) make people believe by whatever unsubstantiated means that he is the master of that topic; 4) promote the book and laugh all the way to the bank...

He states in the book that the '4 hour of work' is just an arbitrary number. The title was used because his publisher was against his original title of 'Selling Drugs for Fun and Profit' and being such a self promoter he figured that working only 4 hours is something that would grab attention.

Um, you seem to have missed a rather key part of his story. Sure, he works more than four hours a week--that's not some amazing insight, it's plainly obvious. The thing you seem to have missed is that he only spends a negligible amount of time maintaining his income from the supplement company which was founded long before the book was even written. That was his primary income before the book and may very well still be today.

I'm not sure how you missed it. That he was able to establish an almost entirely automated source of income is pretty central to the book. Unless you'd like to supply some evidence that he didn't do that, you've done a better job of painting yourself as a liar than him.

The point of the book is that you should do what is fun for you.

For Tim, that is not work.

If for you, it is work.

Then perhaps Tim would argue that you should do ...

guess ...

that's right,

work.

I don't have time to read the book. Too busy working :)

Seriously, the title and whole premise of it isn't something I'm interested in at all.

The way he picked the title was interesting. He purchased adwords for a large array of possible book names and then went with the one that got the most click throughs

Sure, interesting, if all you want to do is sell books to the masses in the short term. If you want some longer lasting credibility, then probably best to choose the title and content some other way.