The tone of the book is helpful, soothing, inspiring, objective, and passionate. The entire purpose of the book is to help the reader achieve financial independence. To that end, the authors encourage the reader to not only read the book, but to actually follow through on doing every step in the book in order to achieve financial independence. In fact, they actually devote a page at the beginning of the book, before the contents, warning the reader that it will do no good to read the book without following through with every step of the program.