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Loading... The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Richby Timothy Ferriss
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan, there is no need to wait and every reason not to. HanoarHatzioni | Jun 8, 2009 |   My preference for this book is very uneven. It's not what I expected exactly. I very much enjoyed the discussion regarding paradigm shifting in lifestyle choices and strategies. The discussions includes things like thinking globally, divesting yourself from some of the never used "energy sapping material things" in your life, and focusing your efforts on the things that you really enjoy doing. The author is very much the extrovert (I am not) though and the book is written from that point of view. The "business creating stuff" was of some interest (and might be more to others) but did not hold my fascination and I found myself flipping through these page rather quickly. (  )stevetempo | May 25, 2009 | Overall I liked the book, though I thought his suggestions for creating an income stream were a little gimmicky and his criticism of deferred compensation seems overly optimistic after the economic crisis. On the positive side, you can gain a lot of useful ideas for time and task management. Also, it has a lot of good financial information showing how one can afford to take “mini-retirements” from their career – cheap travel, insurance, maintain finances remotely etc, etc. The book is also backed by a web site with good resources for analyzing your situation. Though I would not follow his entire method, I picked up a lot of good ideas and it encouraged me to attempt a few things I thought I would never have the money or time to do. Recommended. (  )rlwillis | May 9, 2009 | Intriguing, but he obviously relies on everyone else working 40 hours a week (or more) in order to support his lifestyle. Wanker! (  )hennster | Apr 17, 2009 | The 4HWW isn't a book about doing nothing and relaxing. Tim writes about how he changed his lifestyle so he could pursue what made life interesting for him. Tim writes about abandoning the deferred lifestyle plan (waiting till retirement), the currency of the New Rich- time and mobility and maximising the 80/20 rule- focusing your efforts on the 20 percent of things that create the moth results. What makes the book really interesting is all the examples. Tim doesn't write about hypothetical examples, he writes about what has worked for him. ( )cultivatingthemind | Apr 3, 2009 | 0.056 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307353133, Hardcover)What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask thiscontroversial 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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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