Ferriss Chapter 14 Summary

To fix this, Ferriss should have stated that some people can and will get tired of their job. Some people will complain and never want to go to the office. However, there are jobs out there that are very rewarding that people want to do for their rest of their lives. He should have stated that there is a spectrum, and people are all over it.
In chapter 14, Ferriss is talking about Mini-Retirements. He is convinced that going on mini-vacations every few months will benefit everyone. He is telling his readers how to afford traveling the world all the time. However, he makes a mistake by using a composition/ division fallacy. He states “Airfare: Free courtesy of AMEX gold card and Chase continental airlines Mastercard” (Ferriss 258). How does this add up? In this part of the book, Ferriss is expecting that everyone can receive fre flights to
Dogmatism is a fallacy that makes the author sound like they know everything, and they are better than everyone. Using dogmatism is never a good idea. In his book, Ferriss uses dogmatism in many places. To begin with, “Doing something unimportant well does not make it important”( Ferriss 70). This quote from section two of the book is comparing the difference between being effective and efficient. The statement above makes Ferriss sound very arrogant. Some jobs like a garbage man is unimportant to some people. But in other cases it it very important. It becomes important when you have a overflow of garbage in your house, and you have no one to pick it up. This is an example to prove Ferriss’ statement wrong.
The statement above makes Ferriss sound very arrogant. Some jobs like a garbage man is unimportant to some people. But in other cases it it very important. It becomes important when you have a overflow of garbage in your house, and you have no one to pick it up. This is an example to prove Ferriss’ statement wrong.
Another example of dogmatism