Normal People (Members Edition)

by Sally Rooney
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Good Books rating 3.5
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  • Added: 2025-09-10
  • Updated: 2025-09-18
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faber.co.uk · Unknown · 2025-09-18
inspiring 4.50

The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss is a guide for digital nomads seeking to leverage technology and outsource tasks to achieve a lifestyle of time and mobility. The book emphasizes defining goals, eliminating inefficiencies, automating income, and achieving liberation from traditional work structures.

The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss is a comprehensive guide aimed at digital nomads who want to optimize their work-life balance. The book introduces the concept of the 'new rich,' who prioritize time and mobility over traditional measures of success. It outlines a four-step process—definition, elimination, automation, and liberation—to achieve a lifestyle that offers freedom and flexibility. The author emphasizes the importance of setting clear goals, eliminating non-essential tasks, automating income streams, and ultimately liberating oneself from the constraints of traditional employment. The book also challenges conventional wisdom about retirement, suggesting that mini-retirements and focusing on personal productivity can lead to a more fulfilling life. Overall, the book provides practical advice and strategies for those looking to design a lifestyle that prioritizes freedom and personal fulfillment.

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    The new rich are those whose currencies are time and mobility. They use these currencies to achieve full lifestyle design.

    The goal of the book is for you to obtain the lifestyle that the new rich have. The key to this lifestyle is to free your time and automate your income.

    True freedom is about having enough income and time to do what you actually want to do with your life.

static.faber.co.uk · Unknown · 2025-09-18
critical 1.00

The reviewer criticizes 'The 4 Hour Work Week' as a shallow, get-rich-quick guide that promotes a lifestyle of disengagement and exploitation of global labor. They argue that the book's advice is not revolutionary and that many of its ideas were already circulating before its publication.

The reviewer takes a critical stance against 'The 4 Hour Work Week,' describing it as a book rooted in a get-rich-quick philosophy that focuses on making life easy rather than meaningful. They argue that the book's advice is not new and that its success was more about timing and marketing than innovation. The reviewer also criticizes the book's promotion of outsourcing labor to the global south and its dismissal of traditional 9-5 jobs, which they argue can be fulfilling and stable. They suggest that the book's ideas have contributed to the rise of the gig economy and the idea that one should seek unending fulfillment from a single job, which they find unrealistic.

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    Ferriss had created a brand that was something like a Tony Robbins geared to the tech set, targeted to young creative people obsessed with efficiency.

    Ferriss writes, “for most people . . . the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. The vast majority of people will never find a job that can be an unending source of fulfilment”.

    It’s a similar to this idea floating around the heteronormative mythology that you should have your one partner fulfil your every need.

ru.pinterest.com · Unknown · 2025-09-18
valuable 4.00

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss, while dated in some aspects, offers timeless principles like Fear Setting, Dreamlining, and effectiveness strategies that remain relevant. These principles encourage rethinking how we use our time and attention, making the book a valuable read for personal and professional growth.

Reading The 4-Hour Work Week in 2024 provides a fascinating perspective on how some of Tim Ferriss' ideas have become almost archaic, while others remain highly relevant. The book's suggestions for creating passive income and becoming part of the New Rich may seem outdated, but the underlying principles are still useful. Fear Setting helps remove doubt by visualizing worst-case scenarios and planning for them, Dreamlining encourages setting unrealistic but exciting goals, and the emphasis on effectiveness challenges us to focus on what truly matters. These principles prompt us to rethink how we use our most precious assets—time and attention, making the book a valuable read for anyone looking to improve their personal and professional life.

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    Tim's suggestions for creating passive income and becoming part of the New Rich by creating information products are so well used as to appear almost archaic at this point.

    Fear Setting - (Tim also did a TED Talk on this.) Before embarking on your dreams, using this exercise is a great tool to remove doubt.

    So, to summarise, I would absolutely recommend The 4-Hour Work Week, not necessarily as a playbook for generating passive income in 2024, but certainly as a prompt to rethink how we use our most precious assets - Time and Attention.

tiktok.com · Unknown · 2025-09-18
moving 4.50

The reviewer found 'Normal People' to be a deeply moving and authentic portrayal of young love and mental health struggles. They appreciated the raw and unfiltered depiction of the characters' experiences.

The reviewer was struck by the emotional depth and authenticity of 'Normal People'. They felt the book beautifully captures the complexities of young love and the challenges of mental health, making it a compelling and thought-provoking read. The characters' journeys resonated deeply, and the reviewer appreciated the raw and unfiltered portrayal of their experiences. The book's exploration of relationships and personal growth left a lasting impression, making it a standout read.

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    The characters' struggles felt so real and relatable.

    The book's portrayal of mental health issues was both honest and heart-wrenching.

    The emotional depth of the story left a lasting impact.

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