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Originally Posted by Eggzachery  Feel free to continue posting if you have something new and noteworthy to contribute, but I like this forum a little too much to see its value watered down by this sort of tripe. |
Thanks so much, Eggzachery! I will indeed feel free to continue posting, and sometimes I will repeat myself! I'm glad you enjoy the forum. If you feel what I write is tripe, please do not bother yourself with consuming it; I certainly don't want you to wretch up any entrails. (Please note, though, that I was not addressing you in either of my 'dupes.' Even so, you're welcome to be offended by them if you wish.)
Lucas, I've read so many books about similar subjects in the last 20 years or so that maybe I've just seen the methods espoused by Mr. Ferris enough that his context alone just doesn't do it for me. What I meant by my diet remark is not that he's repeating old news so much as that it's instruction that doesn't make any difference in my life -- I would have liked to read a new approach that would actually be inspiring. At the risk of irritating Eggzachery, I'll say it again: the book did not inspire me, but it looks like it inspired you and others, so there you go. (breathe deeply, E.) I did like the outsourcing stuff, though.
But I can certainly see where someone who is new to Ferris's ideas would find them exciting and inspiring. He's young, he's got a snappy patter, and there's a certain...I don't know...marketing savoir faire about him that's appealing.
FYI, my lifestyle for the last 21 years has been a little like Ferris' mini-retirements: I alternate working and traveling/living in foreign lands for months at a time; sometimes the working and the traveling overlap.