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The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (2007, Hardcover) 
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (2007, Hardcover)

 
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (2007, Hardcover)

Publisher: Crown Pub
Publication Date: 2007-04-24
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0307353133
ISBN-13: 9780307353139
Product ID: EPID57188998
Description: Entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss rewrites the rules and upsets conventional wisdom about work and success in his self-help guide to the new, rich economy. It is not necessary to toil for 70 hours per week, according to Ferriss, who runs a co...
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Synopsis
Entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss rewrites the rules and upsets conventional wisdom about work and success in his self-help guide to the new, rich economy. It is not necessary to toil for 70 hours per week, according to Ferriss, who runs a company called BrainQuicken. Successful people, he says, have actually mastered a system of working less by outsourcing tasks, severely cutting back on timewasters such as meetings, and working offsite. Ferriss tells how the principles that made him rich are transferable to other companies.

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Publication Date:2007-04-24

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Length:308 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:16.0 oz

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      Tim Ferriss is the next Anthony Robbins
    Review created: 05/05/07
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    13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

    “The 4-Hour Workweek” is a vastly entertaining book. Ferriss believes that any kind of work, career or enterprise is best thought of as an enabling technology to make just enough money to pursue your passions, from kickboxing to tango, and that more work (and, presumably, more networking) is a waste.

    In stark contrast to much current wisdom around time management, he advises readers to go on a low-information diet, cultivate selective ignorance, reply to email as little as possible (start establishing a twice-a-day routine, then build up to once a week or once a month), refuse to be interrupted for chitchat or spend time at the water cooler, and master the art of disappearing from the office (the hero of one hilarious chapter is an HP tech support employee based in Palo Alto who was apparently able to spend a month in China to meet his girlfriend’s parents and marry her without anybody in the office noticing that he wasn’t at his desk).

    The author’s ignorance is a bit too selective for my taste (claiming that Vilfredo Pareto is a “forgotten” Italian economist is really like saying: hey, I never took one econ or stats course in college and if I did I must have slept through it, yet look at how successful I’ve become). Still, the book is full of interesting ideas from outsourcing tasks to an personal assistant in India to micro-testing on the Web whatever product or idea you want to sell for a handful of dollars in clicks (and the guy walks the talk: “How do you think I determined the best title for this book?”) On a bigger scale, he describes ways to put your income generation on autopilot and strongly advocates a career with a number of “mini-retirement” periods built in (his ideal: three of four per year, preferably abroad). For bloggers (who are routinely advised to post ten or twelve times per day if they want their readership to grow), Ferriss is a very different role model: his blog seems to be updated once every three or four days (hey, at least I’m doing something right here!)
    “The 4-Hour Workweek” is innovative, fresh, and charmingly provocative. This book is going to be big, and Timothy Ferriss can be the new Anthony Robbins. You, my dear readers, read it here first.


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      Tim is the chef for the recipe of the American Dream
    Review created: 05/31/07
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    10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

    This is not a book on how to be Tim Ferriss. Rather, it is a book on how to increase your available time, income and mobility (oddly enough, T-I-M) to do the things you want to do. Tim shows you how to beat the traditional system of slave, save and retire by applying some commonsense but not common knowledge principles, such as: 20% of your efforts gives you 80% of the results, therefore eliminate the other 80% of your efforts (or customers).

    24% of most office-workers' time is spent task-switching. Therefore, minimize the switching. 40% of those who switch never go back to their original task. Even more reason to minimize switching.

    Tim uses the experiences of his short yet meteoric life (he wrote the book when he was 29) to illustrate his principles. His accomplishments as a mixed martial artist and tango dancer while running a very profitable company is living proof that his claims do work and can work for anyone willing to apply them.

    One important factor to know is how to measure the value of your time. Once you compute that figure, any task less than that should be outsourced, if possible. To stretch the outsourcing dollar even further, he advises countries in which the dollar's value is multiplied, such as India. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, there is no exploitation going on here. These are established workforces that specialize in a wide variety of tasks that can be done remotely. Tasks such as spreadsheet and document preparation, internet research, phone calls, purchases, appointments and much more. Uh, poor people working on business plans? Get real.

    Tim wants you not to be the pinnacle of the org chart but off to the side. When you are at the top, all of the work funnels through you. This is what he went through when he worked 80-hour weeks. If you cannot be the owner, but the employee (most of us), there are still ways to maximize the T-I-M.

    It is easy to get caught up in envying the success, wealth and free time that Tim has. Occasionally, you have to remind yourself that you too, can have more disposable time, income and mobility if you follow his book, to do the things you want to do. If you don't remind yourself, it is easy to get caught up in accusing Tim of promoting a hedonistic, selfish and materialistic lifestyle. What Tim does not do is show you to how cheat others so that you can live the good life. Rather, he shows you how to restructure the system to your advantage. This is not a greedy ethic. Simply a way to bend the system to your will with everyone's consent.

    This book is obviously not for those in service-related industries such as law enforcement, fire rescue, medical, where your presence is required.

    This book is 99% fantastic and 1% flawed. Some shortcomings include his tacit approval of lying when he recommends calling in sick when you're not and his abysmal ignorance of political theory and philosophy (he shuns just about all news, reads a trade journal or two and fiction - not exactly a rigorous workout for the mind - contrast that with his physical workout). Happily, those deficiencies are avoidable in the way you apply his principles.

    I read this book in just over a week and am reading it again. I bought 5 more copies to hand out. I like the fact that Tim is not a showman like other well-known motivational speakers; his audio interviews reveal a quiet, thoughtful, laid-back guy who accomplished much, learned a lot and has nothing to hide from the rest of us.


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