This book purports to give you instructions on how to find a “muse”, a small business that only requires a few hours of your time each week yet provides you with ample income to live on, giving you the time, and money to travel and do all of the other things Timothy Ferriss recommends you spend your time on.

It is good for getting you motivated, and making you like your job less…  The ideas recommended in the book  do sound plausible, but to actually achieve them I still think will take some luck and lot of upfront time.

For example, inspired by this book, I tried to start selling some software I made for myself.  I made a test page to find out how much demand there would be.  I bought $100 of Google adwords, created some clever ads and pointed them to the new page.  However only a few percent of people viewing the ads clicked on them, and no one filled out the form on the landing page.  So I was dissapointed.

I talked to a few people who had successfully done this, and it sounded like my “muse” might be workable however it would require constantly changing the page design around to achieve the best sales, and possibly investing money upfront for better landing page copy, etc.  So it was hard to say if all that effort would be worth it.

I guess my main point is that this book’s advice could be workable but it’s going to take a lot of effort and possibly a few failed attempts before you achieve anything.  It’s not going to be anywhere as easy as the book seems to imply.  You may be better off just having a part time job or something.

It’s still worth a read though, and it does have some practical tips on topics like outsourcing your life.  Go ahead and buy it at Amazon now if it sounds interesting to you.