The point of those late night "here is my yacht, here is my house, here is my trophy wife. Call now and be like me!" infomercials is that they're making money from selling the money making system, rather than from real estate or chinchilla farms.

Skim less, understand more. :-)

But aren't you skeptical? Sure, those infomercials are selling the system, but if you'd bought it, you'd expect the system would explain how to do it, right? I'd expect the book to explain how to do it too.

But I found it very conclusory. It never really explained how. It seems like almost everything I read was "I saved more money and did less work, thats how i did this." But there was no explanation exactly how he did it. Most of the examples I read did not fully explain the nuts and bolts of how to do it. Sure, if you want inspiration, go ahead. But you don't need a whole book to say you work less and earn more. He can say that in one line and be done with it. I expected more, and I found it lacking. To me it was the equivalent of writing a book on stocks and filling up 300 pages with "I bought high and sold low, thats how I'm rich."

I'm quite confident my skimming did not result in a lack of understanding, but more. I skimmed a lot, and each part I skimmed lacked substance. If it consistently lacked substance, it told me not to waste my time.