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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Ferriss
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307353133
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780307353139
ASIN: 0307353133
Publication Date: April 24, 2007
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Product 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.
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 Fun read...You still need to think for yourself August 19, 2008
I really enjoyed this book. While I would love to quit my job and move closer towards a four-hour work week, I was really just looking for information about trying to get a product to market in the easiest way possible, which is what the author has provided.
While I don't necessarily agree with all of the advice given in this book (I'm too much of a control freak to check emails only twice a day, and I'm fine with that), I often find myself coming up with ideas that I think are great, only to let them drift off into the ether because the task of creating and marketing them seemed too daunting. What I've gotten from this book more than anything else is a new hobby: a way to turn my ideas into product for between $1200-2000 on average. Considering the costs of some other hobbies (travel, golf, etc.), this doesn't seem that bad, and at least there's a slim chance that any one of my ideas could be life changing, so there's always excitement too.
People reading this book and hoping that it is some sort panacea may be a little disappointed. The author does spell out for you how to make a life like his. However, it will take a huge leap of faith (not to mention a successful product/idea) to start. He does his best to ease you into his way of thinking, and an intelligent person is going to process his advice and make their own decisions. The author is also not promising riches beyond your wildest dreams. He's selling a way for you to enrich your life experiences, and the purpose of your business is to finance these experiences.
Overall, lots of good information, and very motivational. If you've ever had an idea that you thought could change the world, or you wanted to turn the ratio of work to living that you do upside down, you should at least take a cursory glance at this book.
 What a terrible waste of time to read August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Disappointment is hardly the word I would use when describing this book. Sad that people think this way - - all I can think is that the book was written for saps. And, I feel like a sap for buying it. Stay away from this. It's a complete and total waste of your valuable time. Swindle is a great word to describe this author, the book and everything about it.
One of few good books I read...!!! August 14, 2008
Good concepet, good ideas, little bit of bragging by the author, sometimes little unrealistic. In summary, you will enjoy reading this book and will make you think of broader prospective.
 My Former Bible August 14, 2008
Only two types of people have been and will be attracted to reading this book: those who hope it's about one thing and those who know it's about the other. The former belong to the timid, powerless, low-self esteem majority who are simply looking for the ultimate guide to gaining the respect and admiration of their peers. The latter belong to the unscrupulous, dare I say sociopathic ever-growing minority whose end goal is to win at everything against everyone by any means. Once the book has been read and fully digested, one of two conclusions will be reached. The first is a sudden awareness of what a perfectly outstanding tool they hold in their hands and the limitless rewards it can afford them. The second is absolute disgust and horror at having just gleamed the inside of every cold, emotionless fascist heart throughout the whole of human history. Interestingly, the timid are no always the ones repulsed and the ruthless are not always the ones aroused. The tide can break either way.
Shortly after this book was published, I happened upon it in a bookstore and knew I had to have it. A blaze of energy electrified my body and pounded through the deepest recesses of my mind. I was on fire, I couldn't put it down and yet I knew I could never share it with anyone, the way a child might hide away their favorite toy. In truth I became obsessed. I had to learn and then master every element of every law and take supreme authority over every aspect of my life. Indeed, this book, The 48 Laws of Power, became my bible, the most passionate conquest I had ever sought to undertake.
Within its pages I met with the reflection of every gruesome bully and every merry manipulator I had ever known. Their power was uncanny and yet so mysterious, mostly because I could never fathom how such apparently absent minds could lay so cool yet strike with such poison. It was awe-inspiring, and I had to come to terms with their secrets. The secrets that earned them respect from their enemies and fear from their admirers. The secrets that won them the most buxom women, who always appeared so entranced by even their rudest and most audacious displays. "How could they get away with everything so smoothly?!" I had wondered. "How could they be so desirable?!" I had thought. "HOW?!"
Well...here is how. It is simple.
Some people are given to a heredity and/or an upbringing that nourishes what is commonly considered 'bad' behavior. Certain genes as well as certain parenting styles perpetuate an attitude of unruliness which leads in its purest variety to utter contempt for anyone else's thoughts, feelings, or needs. Their minds develop without a balanced set of experiences, leading them to logically conclude that the information that they did receive must indeed be correct. This is also applicable to those who suffer violence in their youth, even if that violence is not carried out physically. The fact remains that whatever world with which one is presented is accepted as the unmitigated truth. 'Bad' behavior is usually viewed by such a person as normal. Thus selfishness, cruelty, and manipulation are seen as strengths, while compassion, kindness and humility are seen as weaknesses.
Surely there are a bevy of other factors that cannot go without mention. High intelligence, a pleasing appearance, a particular talent, et cetra can all act as lauchpads for immorality if similar virtues in others go unrecognized as being equal. This sense of equality is what it all comes down to, in fact. The very idea of power assumes that another cannot or should not be in a position to where the perspectives of both can be viewed as equally valid. On the one end is the person who is possessed by their own image, on the other is the person who believes that they have no intrinsic worth at all. The two feed off of each other in a sadistic/masochistic symbiotic relationship. The point then comes to bear that a person who believes himself powerful only exists so long as the other believes the same thing. Put two people who both see power as the ultimate attainment and you have the setting of the average business affair. The result can be only one of two things. One will cave, allowing the other to dominate, or neither party will cave, effectively precipitating resentment and rage within both. The former leads to a continuation of the cycle, the latter leads to war.
Buy this book if you don't care about anyone but yourself, and it pleases you to see another man crumble. Do not buy this book if you have even the slightest interest in saving yourself from years of unnecessary struggle. Remember that the tide does break both ways, and you do not know who you may become if you toss your ethics in the wastebasket. Needless to say, I was the timid one who was sick of being overlooked, but in the end, it was this book that I tossed into the wastebasket. Your call.
Some good points, but ... August 12, 2008
Tim Ferriss has extrapolated a huge success with one product into a thesis that anyone can do what he has done. He is a wily sort who is not above prevaricating to gain what he wants.
There are some good points in the book rgarding use of the Inernet, taming the e-mail, use of out-sourcing, etc. And the technique of using the Pareto principle is just good advice, although hardly new here. Also, the notion of taking mini-retirements throughout one's life instead of working continuously and then retiring is fine unless one wants to provide stability and security for a spouse and family.
I suppose the lack of loyalty shown by modern companies to their employees with their "reduction in force" moves and outsourcing of jobs leads naturally to the employee attitudes espoused here. Too bad!
I was disappointed toward the end of the book when a person has finally thrown off the shackles of corporate and suburban life that there was no ultimate use of free time and money -- at least this book is "value free" and offered no higher purpose than enjoying self.
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