The 4-Hour Workweek
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...
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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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307353139 (0307353133)
Publish date: April 24th 2007
Publisher: Harmony
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Disclaimers:I skipped parts of the book that dealt with product development and automation, since these do not apply to my experience. Most of the 'mobility' tips do not apply in my case, since I happen to live AND earn in one of those 'ridiculously cheap' countries.There was no little escaping from...
3 stars, It's worth reading, but borrow it.
3 stars, It's worth reading, but borrow it.
In the immortal words of Gertrude Stein, "There is no there there." Ferriss has collected a bunch of old information, spun it around and repackaged it in a breathless! seminar! sort of way. The writing is pedestrian at best, most of his grand ideas are either impractical or kinda loony. I think I l...
I had a real "like/hate" relationship to this book. First the "hates:" Timothy Ferriss represents all that is wrong with the current capitalist system. His "answer" to leaving the wage-slave life and living your dreams, is to have $5-an-hour wage slaves in third-world countries do your work for you....