I haven't read The 4-Hour Workweek, but I like what you're conveying about it! The only way a million bucks can give you freedom of time and place is if you use it to generate automated cash flow. Just to share my situation: I'm at an intermediate stage where I have freedom of place and a certain degree of freedom of time. As an independent trader/investor, my work hours are the hours of the U.S. stock market. They aren't flexible, and there's no paid time off, but there's no one who I need to ask for permission to take time off. In addition, I'm not a day trader; I only place an average of two trades a day (whether buy or sell). This means that, even during trading hours, I have a lot of time to work on my passion projects (for which I've just started using the Steem blockchain as a platform). And I'm building up assets that can be tapped for cash flow so that our (my family's) cash flow can be fully automated.