The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss
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Author: Timothy FerrissEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN: 0307353133
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Crown
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Book Review: Totally Subversive!
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently came across a book called "The 4 Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferris. The tagline on the book is "Escape 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich."The 4 Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferris
Since I am already a believer in working from home and entrepreneurship, I picked up this book, hoping for tips on how to reduce my working time while increasing my income.
This book is totally subversive! If you are a boss and you see your employees reading this, watch out!
Here is what I loved about this book:
* It offered ways to achieve a 4 hour work week for BOTH entrepreneurs and people who keep their jobs, unlike other techniques that require you to quit your job.
* It is a whole new way of thinking about money and life - this book totally transformed my thinking to a new level.
* It is easy to read with lots of examples and some great stories.
Here are key points from the book:
* Waiting until you retire to have the life you want is insane - this book shows you how to take "mini-retirements" every year as a way of sampling your retirement. My mother died at age 54, so I have always felt that waiting for retirement is crazy.
* How to disconnect your income from a particular geographic location. Something I have worked at over the last few years to allow me to travel.
* How to eliminate 80% of your work while keeping your income and results. A lesson I am getting better at myself.
* How to travel the world without quitting your job.
* "New Rich" concept - A millionaire working 80 hours per week isn't really rich - just stressed. Someone earning $5,000 to $10,000 per month working 4 hours a week is richer in time and is able to generate life enriching experiences. I am really connecting to this concept. I have never felt the need for insane amounts of money - just enough to live the way I want, travel and experience life without being tied to a job or business
* Entrepreneurs must learn to become business "owners" instead of "managers."
I highly recommend this book and think EVERYONE should have a copy. I have made it required reading for my coaching students.
It is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, to give you an idea of how popular it is.
Garland Coulson, "The E-Business Tutor"
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Summary of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask thiscontroversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:
"I race motorcycles in Europe."
"I ski in the Andes."
"I scuba dive in Panama."
"I dance tango in Buenos Aires."
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the "deferred-life plan" and instead mastered the new currencies-time and mobility-to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.
Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
. How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
. How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
. How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
. How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
. What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
. How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair
. What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
. How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet
. What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
. How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off
. How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office
You can have it all-really.
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