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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
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Sales rank 1,499
Customers rating (based on 942 reviews)
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What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial 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 officeYou can have it all—really.
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| Publisher | Crown | | Release date | 04/2007 | | Availability | Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item. | | Edition | Hardcover |
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 For all of the haters out there
For starters I only rated this book with 1 star so that the chance it would be read would be greatly increased. My real rating is 5 stars. Nearly every negative review has failed to realize that starting a business that runs itself it merely the vehicle to be successful but not the point of the book. It is a complete re-organization of your life, learning to take a more critical view on what you have been taught life has to be like. It is true that not everybody can do this, good, less competition for me, It is key that you follow the exercises laying the foundation that is necessary for your business model to work. That foundation is getting over your fears, being persistent and truly believing that no task is impossible. For all my "morals this morals that" people, just as spies have to do bad things to make good things happen you can do great things for this world if you have time and money to make it happen. As many have said before me you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. For those of you who still want to give it a try a good start is reading all of the negative reviews. This is a great source of information from all of the losers who this will not work for and teaches you what not to be. I'm not rich, but I no longer slave away and have equaled my previous income. I do agree that this is not for the weak.
Three Cheers for 4HWW
The 4-Hour Work-week by Timothy Ferris
In The 4-Hour Work-week (4HWW) Mr. Ferris gives us a four step process to define our dreams and goals, eliminate those aspects of our lives that do not contribute to accomplishing our dreams, automate the appropriate level of revenue to finance those dreams and liberate ourselves from the daily chores of life. He leads us down a path toward freedom, defined by his own standards, that results in sufficient financial autonomy and emotional independence to set one's own life course and pursue it with passion and vigor.
Perhaps I read into 4HWW things that were not there. I see it as a pattern to be followed that, at least for me, will not lead to a life of leisure working a mere four hours a week but to an iterative process. 4HWW offers a business development path toward business ownership in a highly liberated fashion in which key players perform the routine tasks of the business allowing the owner time to pursue other interests. For Mr. Ferris those other interests lie in areas of leisure and personal development. I see it as an opportunity to multiply my own time by repeating the steps to produce a number of businesses each requiring a fractional commitment in terms of time on my own part.
While The 4-Hour Work-week by Timothy Ferris is not five star writing, it is three cheer thinking and certainly worthy consumption.
 Road map to freedom and success in the real world
I liked a single thing about this book... its no nonsense simplicity in outlining a step by step process for succeeding in ANY area of your life.
Using business as the model, Tim gives his readers the instructions to self development that any and all readers can follow to achieve any goal in life. He accomplishes this without hype or false promises, which is a breath of fresh air. He speaks in specific terms, directs you to specific sources, and gives you the specific tools he has used personally, with no secrets.
Is this process for everyone? Probably not. Can anyone apply his rules and principals to their life to improve themselves and grow to a place where they are able to make changes which will position themselves to take further advantage of more of the instructions he has presented and thus move steadily toward a total application of the recipe provided in this book? ABSOLUTELY!
Life is not about arriving, but rather the journey, and this book leads the way with the "how to" details that so many other books leave out. If you can buy only one book, buy THIS book.
Big impact? Definitly. Life changing? To be seen...
This is not your average book. Its core will affect the inner core of your existence when you're not beyond help of material life. Reading this book on vacation left me without sense of time and kept me on going until I was finished. Then it struck me.
Timothy Ferris talks about life-changing methods that will make you live your dreams of travel, no 9 to 5 job and a life full of adventure. As there are many books around who promise this, what makes this one different? Absolutely vital in this book is the knowledge that money will not be thing that will make you change your life, it causes your life to change. It will not by default make you a happier person though.
As every success writer before, Timothy Ferris will offer you the tools to reach your goal in retrospective view. What the book lacks is the emotions you go through trying to establish this new life which is Delegated, Eliminated, Automated and Liberated (DEAL). Any method like this makes me wonder whether this has helped the author as well or is just a success formula in theory.
Apart from the lack of inner insecurity and description of his own emotional challenges this book is by far one of its kind. If you are daring enough to go out and turn your life upside down, this is your guide. To be continued.
Rediscover your time.
The book isn't targeted at those who don't want to change or those that want to change but cannot, but rather it's targeted for those who actually want to and can change their life. I don't think I could live the way Tim describes in his book. I really enjoy what I do and doing less of it seems like it wouldn't make me better off. But the idea of doing less work isn't what I dug about about the book. One of the ideas was that Tim challenges the notion that people have to work 30-40 years before they can retire and enjoy life. There is no reason why you can't and shouldn't take those trips around the world now. You will likely enjoy and appretricate it more now instead of when you are 60. He also recommends eliminating things which cause stress and waste time. An example of time wasters are events such as meetings, constantly checking e-mail, and even social media. Reducing these actively can help you be more productive. Perhaps something I need to learn how to do. Especially since I am someone who finds myself on twitter and checking email all the time. Although I enjoy those work interruptions perhaps they are not the best use of my time. Tim also recommends firing stress causing clients whose projects produce very little revenue for yourself and just add more stress into your life. I'm making the book sound like a self help book and it's really not; It's also not a get rich quick book. Instead think of "The 4-Hour Workweek" as a guide book. Along with the ideas of the elimination of excessive clutter from work and home Tim provides steps for you to start automating your life. Showing you how to create income streams that don't require you to be involved in the equation. I'm not sure that everyone can optimize the way that Tim and others have. A majority of people who read it WON'T follow any of the advice in the book. People like stability, routine, and security. If nothing else it's inspirational and will likely get you motivated. It will make you wonder why you work so much and travel so little. Rediscover your time.
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