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The Four-Hour Work Week
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The Four-Hour Work Week (2007) (edit title/settings)

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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A terrific book that has an exceptional set of quotations from famous people. Part of the book talks about outsourcing and being in your own business (which I didn't find interesting). In general its a self-help book thats meant to get you to give yourself a kick in the ass and start making... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A terrific book that has an exceptional set of quotations from famous people. Part of the book talks about outsourcing and being in your own business (which I didn't find interesting). In general its a self-help book thats meant to get you to give yourself a kick in the ass and start making the most of your life. Like other books on my bookshelf its a good book to help you reflect on your life and the direction you want to take going forward.

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Is lifestyle design for you?

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Step I: D is for Definition

Chapter 1 – Cautions and Comparisons: How to Burn $1,000,000 a Night
Chapter 2 – Rules That Change the Rules: Everything Popular is Wrong
Chapter 3 – Dodging Bullets: Fear-setting and Escaping Paralysis
Chapter 4 – System Reset: Being Unreasonable and Unambiguous

Step II: E is for Elimination

Chapter 5 – The End of Time Management: Illusions and Italians
Chapter 6 – The Low-Information Diet: Cultivating Selective Ignorance
Chapter 7 – Interrupting Interruption and the Art of Refusal

Step III: A is for Automation

Chapter 8 – Outsourcing Life: Offloading the Rest and a Taste of Geoarbitrage
Chapter 9 – Income Autopilot I: Finding the Muse
Chapter 10 – Income Autopilot II: Testing the Muse
Chapter 11 – Income Autopilot III: MBA—Management By Absence

Step IV: L is for Liberation

Chapter 12 – Disappearing Act: How to Escape the Office
Chapter 13 – Beyond Repair: Killing Your Job
Chapter 14 – Mini-Retirements: Embracing the Mobile Lifestyle
Chapter 15 – Filling the Void: Adding Life After Subtracting Work
Chapter 16 – The Top 13 New Rich Mistakes

The Last Chapter: An E-Mail You Need to Read

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  • Definition: Definition means to figure out what a person wants, get over fears, see past society's "expectations," and figure out what it will really cost to get where a person wants to go.
  • Elimination: Elimination is about time management, or rather about not managing time. This is achieved applying the 80/20 rule (80% of your benefits come from 20% of your efforts) to focus only on those tasks that contribute the majority of benefit, and using Parkinson's Law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion) to limit the amount of actual time spent working. There's a difference, Ferriss says, between efficiency and effectiveness. The book's emphasis is on effectiveness.
  • Automation: Automation is about building a sustainable, automatic source of income. This includes techniques such as drop-shipping, automation, Google Adwords and Adsense, and outsourcing.
  • Liberation: is dedicated to the successful automation of one's lifestyle and the liberation from a geographical location and job.

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This is book 35 of 53 in Personal MBA. (community list)

Preceded by The Knack, and followed by Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.

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  1. Timothy Ferriss (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 24, 2007
ISBN: 9780307353139
Page Count: 308

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