| | |  | Books | Home » » The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | | | | | | | Description: | | 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 office
You can have it all—really. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780307353139
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Timothy Ferriss | | Hardcover:
| 320 pages | | Publisher:
| Crown | | Publication Date:
| April 24, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0307353133 | | Package Length:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 906 reviews |
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 Solid, Easy to Understand InformationNov 06, 2009
Tim does a great job of sharing facts and experiences without overwhelming the reader with too much "Me" talk. This book includes resource information that business owners and managers will find extremely valuable.
Lifestyle Design At It's Best... [...]Nov 05, 2009
Running a home and online business, I was searching for a way to step back from it all and tap into the beauty of not being directly tied to the corporate world. After reading Tim's book, it opened my eyes to a world that I was imagining for myself, only now I had the "next steps" to make it all a reality. It just goes to show that when the student is willing, the teacher will emerge... or something like that :) Highly recommended for people to realize that there is more to life than 9-5 in your cubicle, and a practical piece of writing for entrepreneurs who want to experience the lifestyle that they envisioned for themselves when starting a business... from geo arbitrage, to lifestyle design... the 4 hour work week has it all!
Pretty good book...Nov 03, 2009
I like this book.
I already have websites that I created in the hopes of making money and I will tell you, even that is A LOT of hard work. I outsource a lot of the work to people in other countries...but I don't really tell many people because some people think there is something wrong with doing that. Tim Ferriss admitted to doing a lot of things that definitely border on being unethical. There are a few things he recommended that I wouldn't ever consider doing, but some I would.
What I like the most about this book is that the majority of people who read it WON'T follow any of the advice in it. They will continue to do what they are doing, and that means that I won't have as much competition in my endeavors. I knew a lot of what he wrote, but I learned new things, too.
I believe you can create a situation in which you make a decent income and only have to work to maintain your business for a few hours a week. The thing is, the initial work to get it up and running is HARD. You have to do a lot of the work yourself, in order to be able to outsource it eventually. He says that (though I think he glosses over how much initial work is required.) Most people aren't willing to work extremely hard and do all the research and legwork necessary to get a business to the point where it is almost passive income. Especially since there is never a guarantee that a business you attempt to start will work out. That is why it is not often done.
Like I already said, though, I am fine with that. I need people to work for me. ;)
I also think that the author is definitely somewhat selfish.. and the fact that he is a bachelor explains it for me. I don't think he is a sociopath, as some have stated. I am married and so I wouldn't go fishing for numbers, or have the same mobility a single person would have... but I do have a second person to dream and plan with and to help me with all the work that needs to be done to get us to the point where we can work less and do more of what we truly want to do (travel.. that is one thing...)
Some people were annoyed because Tim wrote about how he didn't really respect authority figures. I laughed when he wondered "why are we doing it the retard way?" about his boss' orders. I also don't do that well with authority figures, and I often ask myself the same question about the decisions of people I work for. I was frustrated for years working under people as what I refer to as a "trained monkey", and I only became happier when I started my own business. I don't have to deal with that much BS now. I also only respect people if they earn my respect... not just because they hold a certain title or position. If they act idiotic and make dumb choices, I am not going to just go along with it happily and blindly because they are my manager. I can't work like that.
Anyway, I liked the book. If you are brave, intelligent, and willing to work really hard for a potential pay off later, then check out this book. There are lots of other inspiring books out there, too, like The Millionaire Next Door (I liked the one for women best.)
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 4-hour waste of time, another snake oil bookNov 03, 2009
I am so sick of these books. I swear every time I won't buy another one, then I do. I think, someone out there has to be honest, not Tim. I guess someone who cheats his way through a kick boxing competition isn't at all concerned about a book promising to radicalize people's lives which is really just a narcissistic bunch of stories about the author with little snippets of suggestions on real world ways to create a 4 Hour Work week. His solutions are common sense and found in many other books and are hardly anything new and hardly work as simply as he suggests, believe I know. He skips over his plans so quickly with these fanciful ideas of what it would take to do what he suggests, probably because he never did them. Just another con man out for a buck, shame on you Tim.
I don't completely agree...Nov 02, 2009
While I don't agree with some of his methods, Mr. Ferriss has some great ideas. I would recommend this book.
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