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The Freedom Figure: How to Work Less, Live More, and Thrive in the New World of Work
Software is eating the world and new technologies are rushing to disrupt all that was previously sacred - jobs, industries, education, pensions, and even government. The world is becoming increasingly difficult for people who want to be told what to do and watched while they do it. However, for those willing to break away from convention, it offers unparalleled opportunity.
Here's just some of what you will learn in this humorous, honest book:
1. The Freedom Figure - A simple framework for controlling your finances and separating your lifestyle from your income.
2. The Luck Surface Area technique - The simplest explanation for why certain people seem to get all the luck, and how you can become one of them.
3. How to win at marketing - For people that hate marketing and self-promotion (that's everyone, right?).
4. What to do when you want to do everything - How to optimise your life around experimentation.
5. How to become your own boss - Six steps to online self-employment or how to maximise your success as an employee/freelancer.
Bonus - More than ten case studies from people who've already made the leap, explaining how they did it.
This book is for anyone dreaming of escaping their day job, or wondering why they no longer have a day job. It will teach you how to create a more future-proof life of greater adventure and freedom.
Adam Fletcher is a 32 year old bald Englishman. A writer of words and an eater of chocolate, he is the author of five traditionally published books, three of which are Spiegel Best-sellers in his adopted Germany. He has sold more than 150k books, not all of which were to his mother. Proudly self-employed for the past seven years, before he was a writer he lived from a number of small internet businesses. He talks about them in the book.
Here's just some of what you will learn in this humorous, honest book:
1. The Freedom Figure - A simple framework for controlling your finances and separating your lifestyle from your income.
2. The Luck Surface Area technique - The simplest explanation for why certain people seem to get all the luck, and how you can become one of them.
3. How to win at marketing - For people that hate marketing and self-promotion (that's everyone, right?).
4. What to do when you want to do everything - How to optimise your life around experimentation.
5. How to become your own boss - Six steps to online self-employment or how to maximise your success as an employee/freelancer.
Bonus - More than ten case studies from people who've already made the leap, explaining how they did it.
This book is for anyone dreaming of escaping their day job, or wondering why they no longer have a day job. It will teach you how to create a more future-proof life of greater adventure and freedom.
Adam Fletcher is a 32 year old bald Englishman. A writer of words and an eater of chocolate, he is the author of five traditionally published books, three of which are Spiegel Best-sellers in his adopted Germany. He has sold more than 150k books, not all of which were to his mother. Proudly self-employed for the past seven years, before he was a writer he lived from a number of small internet businesses. He talks about them in the book.
191 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 11, 2016
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Adam Fletcher
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Adam Fletcher is a 38 year old bald Englishman living in Berlin, Germany. When not shamelessly selling his life in story form, he spends his days eating chocolate and napping. He's a particularly good napper.
He's the author of eight traditionally published books, including three Spiegel bestsellers, and has sold more than 350k copies combined, not all of which were to his mother, he hopes. She no longer lets him in her garage. Adam specialises in taking you, from the comfort of your favourite armchair, to the strangest countries and places in the world with his popular Weird Travel series.
He also writes comedic fiction as Adam R. Fletcher - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Adam Fletcher is a 38 year old bald Englishman living in Berlin, Germany. When not shamelessly selling his life in story form, he spends his days eating chocolate and napping. He's a particularly good napper.
He's the author of eight traditionally published books, including three Spiegel bestsellers, and has sold more than 350k copies combined, not all of which were to his mother, he hopes. She no longer lets him in her garage. Adam specialises in taking you, from the comfort of your favourite armchair, to the strangest countries and places in the world with his popular Weird Travel series.
He also writes comedic fiction as Adam R. Fletcher - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
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August 23, 2016
In The Freedom Figure Adam Fletcher aims to inform us on how to “Work less, live more, and thrive in a digital age.”
Part 1 of the book explains the why and how of the global job market shift. Personally this was my favorite part of the book. It was informative and thought provoking in way that I did not expect.
We are led into the book with a metaphor comparing the digital era to an overcrowded party. Fletcher takes a jab at everything from online based consulting/coaching to the old people who unfairly criticize millennials for wanting everything for free. He even brilliantly depicts the catch 22 of having recruiters turn their noses up at you for not having experience, knowing very well that experience can’t be gained unless you are given a chance to gain it.
Chapter 4, and the case study that follows it, is hands down the most interesting and real thing I’ve read all year. I would purchase the Fridge Figure just to read the information laid out here. Fletcher lays out the history of the job market in a relevant and interesting way, and then leads us into his explanation of why and how middle class jobs are being replaced with low income positions. It’s brilliant, and completely supported by the Amazon case study.
Part 2 is where he lays down the groundwork, and reveals to us the Freedom Figure. The Freedom Figure is an equation that depicts the exact amount of income you would need to live a life of contentment. What I love about this concept is that it’s not the “make a shit ton of money and live a life of extravagance” concept that so many are pushing these days. It’s quite the opposite. Fletcher urges you to cut back and cut out all of the unnecessary stuff that we think brings happiness to our lives, but doesn’t actually. He wants us to experiment with making drastic cuts with the goal of finding out what does or doesn't ACTUALLY add value to our life.
Part 3 is all about reaching your Freedom Figure with passive income, so that you can live more life and do more of what you love. This section mostly consists of examples of people who have done just that and how.
All in all I give The Freedom Figure 4 out of 5 stars because I was expecting the entire book to match or exceed Part 1. It didn’t for me, but it was still a decent read with some muse worthy information.
Note: I received and advanced reader copy from The Story Cartel in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions stated in the review are my own
Part 1 of the book explains the why and how of the global job market shift. Personally this was my favorite part of the book. It was informative and thought provoking in way that I did not expect.
We are led into the book with a metaphor comparing the digital era to an overcrowded party. Fletcher takes a jab at everything from online based consulting/coaching to the old people who unfairly criticize millennials for wanting everything for free. He even brilliantly depicts the catch 22 of having recruiters turn their noses up at you for not having experience, knowing very well that experience can’t be gained unless you are given a chance to gain it.
Chapter 4, and the case study that follows it, is hands down the most interesting and real thing I’ve read all year. I would purchase the Fridge Figure just to read the information laid out here. Fletcher lays out the history of the job market in a relevant and interesting way, and then leads us into his explanation of why and how middle class jobs are being replaced with low income positions. It’s brilliant, and completely supported by the Amazon case study.
Part 2 is where he lays down the groundwork, and reveals to us the Freedom Figure. The Freedom Figure is an equation that depicts the exact amount of income you would need to live a life of contentment. What I love about this concept is that it’s not the “make a shit ton of money and live a life of extravagance” concept that so many are pushing these days. It’s quite the opposite. Fletcher urges you to cut back and cut out all of the unnecessary stuff that we think brings happiness to our lives, but doesn’t actually. He wants us to experiment with making drastic cuts with the goal of finding out what does or doesn't ACTUALLY add value to our life.
Part 3 is all about reaching your Freedom Figure with passive income, so that you can live more life and do more of what you love. This section mostly consists of examples of people who have done just that and how.
All in all I give The Freedom Figure 4 out of 5 stars because I was expecting the entire book to match or exceed Part 1. It didn’t for me, but it was still a decent read with some muse worthy information.
Note: I received and advanced reader copy from The Story Cartel in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions stated in the review are my own
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