| | |  | Electronics | 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 944 reviews |
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 Extremely Helpful Time ManagementMar 21, 2010
When I first heard about this book from a friend, I thought, "Why would I want to read that? It's impossible to do a 4-hour work week." However, I decided to read it because there must be something special with so many people raving about it. It turns out that he isn't really saying to work a 4 hour week. Timothy Ferris gives a lot of ideas and suggestions on how to manage your time more wisely. I especially liked the part about controlling your time on email. Also, the outsourcing chapter was exellent.
Control Email,Use Agendas for Meeting and AutomateMar 20, 2010
I purchased Tim's book for the Kindle and overall enjoyed reading the book. I found his suggestions for dealing with email and controlling meetings with agendas simple,effective and right on.I even sent my friends an email summarizing his nine pointers/tips. I have enjoyed rereading certain parts of his book, and the more I read the more I learn and enjoy his book. Although, other parts of the book contain novel approaches for small business automation,ie affiliate marketing, drop shipments which perk my interest, I am waiting for his next book on how to execute in detail many of the topics he briefly discusses.
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I loved it!Mar 20, 2010
Great book which i first read at the library, but soon purchased from the bookstore because i had to have it as part of my collection! This book is full of useful information which I always refer back to.
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 For all of the haters out thereMar 11, 2010
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 4HWWMar 08, 2010
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.
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