The Lazy Way to Success: How to Do Nothing and Accomplish Everything

By Fred Gratzon

Book Overview

Hardcover book, with dust jacket; new 1st edition 2003. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972046402
• ISBN13: 9780972046404
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Soma Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

What A Title!

Can you think of a more compelling book title than this? How about the subtitle: How to do nothing and accomplish anything? Pretty strong stuff. The author has built two multimillion dollar businesses, and brings that credibility to the table, but insists that he is lazy. Here are his three major premises: * Success is inversely proportional to hard work. * People who espouse the virtues of hard work publicly are doing a grave disservice to humanity because hard work is, in fact, counterproductive to success. * The impulse to find ways of avoiding work drives all of civilization * The deepest, most profound, most complete spiritual experience you can have is based on doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. This book is irreverent (if you haven't figured that out yet), fun to read, full of great illustrations, and correct. It is the size of a coffee table book, and comes in at 215 pages. Buy yourself a copy for a great read and for a chance to re-examine some of your beliefs and principles. Read it and then put it on your coffee table or in your office. I guarantee with this title, it will stimulate conversation.

delightful, beautiful book

I invited Fred Grazton on my radio show to talk about his book. When it arrived it, the first thing I noticed was how different it is from the many books I receive as a radio show host. First of all, it's a beautiful book, a high-quality coffee table-type book. Secondly, the flow of the text and illustrations is gorgeous. I don't know how he and his editor managed it, but this book doesn't seem to contain any fluff or distractions or extraneous text. I had the feeling that every word was just right. It drew me in, kept me entertained, and challenged some of my long-held notions. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the opportunity to interview Fred about it. (You can listen to the interview if you'd like). It's purely delightful, and has some very relevant applications not just to work, but to what's going on in the world today in terms of terrorism, Katrina, etc. I highly recommend it!

Insightful and useful knowledge for real life

This book was exhilarating! It explained that success comes from within, not from struggling with the world. This book explains how to find success by finding the source of infinite creativity and intelligence within you. When I finally found something I loved and was good at, I was so much more successful than when I tried to follow other people's ideas of how to succeed. And because I loved what I was doing and was good at it, it was easy!

Antidote to Work 'Ethic'

Fred's book is a much needed antidote to the crazy work 'ethic' that permeates most materialistic cultures today.A feliticious combination of imagery and text, the design of the book makes abundantly clear the importance of having an aim in life, turning work into fun, making passionate commitments and trusting the inner compass to discover one's unique calling and happiness.Personally the book is motivating me to transcend my own conditioning of doing 'busy work' as proof of my 'worth', and to have more time and space for contemplation of Life's depths.

A uniquely insightful self-help book

The Lazy Way To Success: How To Do Nothing And Accomplish Everything, is a uniquely insightful self-help book, illustrated with humorous caricatures, and which presents a very strong message -- frantically working yourself to fragments is not the way to success and happiness. Instead, self-improvement and self-enhancement arises from using our mind, from choosing carefully the work that needs to be done, from seeking solutions at a subtler level than the problem, and from avoiding the insanity of unnecessary work at all costs. Featuring a wisdom that is reminiscent of (and in some ways similar to) Taoism, The Lazy Way To Success is a very highly recommended self-help guide.