I find Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker a tough book to read

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I guess I am not mentally prepared to read this book. I thought it will be like other books on early retirement with practical advice. I have prepared mentally to read a personal finance book. I am not prepared to read it like a religious text. In the end, it is exactly like getting in touch with a new religion. Early Retirement Extreme is more like a religious teaching than personal finance. It advocates a new way of thinking about living. Jacob Lund Fisker advocates the concept of a Renaissance ideal. He spoke of life skills lost as we transferred from craftsmen to technology users. One example is that some people do not know how to boil an egg because they used an automatic egg boiler. I have not used automatic egg boiler, but I do use vacuum cleaner and washing machine. This leads me to think about how life is like without vacuum cleaner and washing machine. I probably have to use a broom to sweep the floor, and wash clothes by hands. These are skills that I used to have, and the next question is: do I want to live a life without vacuum cleaner and washing machine? This book requires a lot of thinking, and a lot of self-reflection. That is why I find it mentally and emotionally tough to read it. A single paragraph or chapter can lead to a lot of reflections about the way I live my life.