Comments on: Book review: The Lazy Way to Success

By: The Books Blog

The Books Blog — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:23:54 +0000

Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2)

Surpassing its popular prequel Eragon, this second volume in the Inheritance trilogy shows growing maturity and skill on the part of its very young author, who was only seventeen when the first volume was published in 2003. The story is solidly in the …

By: Bren

Bren — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:12:38 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t mind if it *was* a book about Christianity, but it’s not. It’s a book about work, with spiritual influences from a number of places, including Christianity. If Fred’s pushing anything in this book, it’s TM.

If you’ve got an aversion to spiritual overtones in your business texts then, yeah, you might not like this one.

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:23:47 +0000

“I can’t imagine how anyone would be disappointed with this book”

If following means religion then I would guess people could be disappointed, but it’s more spiritual than religion – right?

“The two biggest surprises, though, are how spiritual it is, and how intelligent it is. The spiritual theme runs through the book and colors every chapter, though some are less veiled than others.”

I’ve bumped into one similar book that I received for free, but was actually quite disappointed when I realized it was a book about Christianity.

By: Eric Carter

Eric Carter — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:09:20 +0000

Interesting. Earlier this week a friend pointed me to the graduation speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Although he doesn’t use the word “lazy”, he makes the same point–find what you love, do it with gusto, and “work” will seem like play for you.