大家好，我是本爷有空，现在开始为您读书。今天您分享的是The 4-Hour workweek中的前言部分，My story and why you need this book 我的故事和你为什么需要这本书的第二部分

THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL of American questions is hard for me to answer these days,  and luckily so. If it weren’t, you wouldn’t be holding this book in your hands.

“So, what do you do?”

Assuming you can find me (hard to do), and depending on when you ask me (I’d prefer    you didn’t), I could be racing motorcycles in Europe, scuba diving off a private island in Panama, resting under a palm tree between kickboxing sessions in Thailand, or dancing tango in Buenos Aires. The beauty is, I’m not a multimillionaire, nor do I particularly care to be.

I never enjoyed answering this cocktail question because it reflects an epidemic I was long part of: job descriptions as self-descriptions. If someone asks me now and is anything but absolutely sincere, I explain my lifestyle of mysterious means simply.

“I’m a drug dealer.”

Pretty much a conversation ender. It’s only half true, besides. The whole truth would take  too long. How can I possibly explain that what I do with my time and what I do for money     are completely different things? That I work less than four hours per week and make more     per month than I used to make in a year?

For the first time, I’m going to tell you the real story. It involves a quiet subculture  of  people called the “New Rich.”

What does an igloo-dwelling millionaire do that a cubicle-dweller doesn’t? Follow an uncommon set of rules.

How does a lifelong blue-chip employee escape to travel the world for a month without his boss even noticing? He uses technology to hide the fact.