Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive: The New Retirement Revolution

by David Bogan, Keith Davies

Checked your forehead lately? See a use-by date? No? Then why on earth are you worrying about retirement? Wake up - retirement is a dumb idea with no place in modern society. It's absurd, economically unviable and can kill you. In a radical, bound-to-be controversial but definitely thought-provoking new approach to the second half of your life, David Bogan and Keith Davies challenge you to turn everything you've been conditioned to think about retirement on its head. Here, in Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive , Bogan and Davies skillfully dissect the retirement industry and arrive at some life-changing conclusions, with real life examples of enlightened individuals who have looked intelligently at their future and decided to live actively and stay in control. There is an exciting, vibrant life beyond a miserly, uncertain retirement. Bogan and Davies will show you how

Genres: Nonfiction

282 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[Ethan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lots of fluff, little substance. Page after page of screed against the authors' version of retirement, in which a person quits working and then crawls into an iron lung, waiting to die. Really? News flash, boys: setting up a straw man and then knocking it down over and over again is not hard. It's also boring. This is a 262 page book that could have been condensed to 2 pages.

I'd recommend this book as a pep talk for folks who have absolutely no chance in hell of retiring. Those who want an intelligent, reasonable discourse on retirement should look elsewhere.

[Olwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book, filled with concepts that are simple to understand. If I wasn't keen on retiring before I read this book (and I wasn't), I'd be even less sold on the idea now!

[John Stevenson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book, from start to finish, gives reasons not to retire. There is very little detail on how to do this, and it is very much left to the reader to work out. Some great case studies of extraordinary people doing this. These are inspiring, but just seem a little out of the reach to an average person.
I was hoping for a more practical text, rather than aspirations. It has convinced me to reconsider retirement, which I feel is an aim of the book.

[Mike Beder · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the concept of retiring (sic) the R word. However as someone who has planned this next stage of living, the remainder of the book’s insights were already known to me.

[Andrew Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has a very powerful message: that retirement is unlikely to be achievable or even desirable for most people now in work. Instead we should focus on doing work that we enjoy and aim to do all the things we are saving for retirement now, while we are young enough to enjoy them more, but without the burden of saving optimistically for an uncertain retirement. There was too much padding in the book for me, eg many stories about people who have avoided retirement. Instead I would have liked more facts and figures to back up the arguments, and some notes to explain the exact sources of the statistics given. I managed to speed read my way through most of the book so avoided wasting too much time.

[Jef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book..

Key takeaways

1. Avoid retirement: the book hammers this home at every opportunity; gets a bit repetitive on occasions.. a somewhat obvious statement given the title