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Ferriss Book: An Artifact Of Popular Culture

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The artifacts of popular culture include everything that surrounds our culture including cars, modes of dressing, ceremonies, and books among others. In popular culture, a basement belief includes the values that create the framework on which the particular culture is founded. These values and beliefs include convictions, certainties, and assumptions that are significant, stable, and longstanding. The Ferriss book can be considered an artifact of pop culture since it provides the reader with a blueprint on how they can live a happy life even with their current life constraints. Analysis of the content of the book shows how it highly resonates with the current lifestyle of an ordinary citizen.
Ferriss has largely promoted ideas that tie …show more content…

As mentioned, the basement beliefs in popular culture include the convictions, certainties, and assumptions that are stable, significant, and longstanding. A perfect example of where Ferriss creates ideas embedded in our popular culture is in his first chapter where he discusses cautions and comparisons and how some men spent millions of dollars in a weekend. In his introduction, Ferriss quotes oranges and lemons and describes what the difference between the new rich and the deferrers. When describing the differences between the two, Ferris quotes that ordinary people will always want to be the bosses, have tones of money, and retire early. In order to show the circle in which ordinary people live in our current culture, Ferriss provides applicable examples that differentiate between the new rich and the deferrers in their current lifestyles. Another example in which Ferriss has used current culture in presenting his ideas is in time management. In our current culture, everyone is working long and hard in order to make an extra coin to be happy. Ferriss approaches this issue on a lighter note by …show more content…

In the book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert tries to debug the basement beliefs and how they affect the financial life of many individuals. Through the book, Robert states that individuals in the current culture concentrate on going to school, getting a job, and living a rat race and end up being financially unstable. In the book by David Allen, the author states that people should concentrate on stress-free productivity by focusing on relaxing, which boosts our productivity. Allen debugs on the popular belief by people that they should be very busy in order to be productive and align goals with the current operations. In the third book by Napoleon, the author notes that background is never the success to truth but the ideas, thoughts, and organized plans that lead to success. Napoleon debugs the popular belief that education, gender, ethnic affiliation among other different backgrounds has any background to success. The correlation between these books is that the current culture is not well meshed to make people successful. The point that these books are trying to make is that for us to be successful we will need to reevaluate the longstanding beliefs that society has always had on some of the values in our current

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