The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New RichTimothy Ferriss
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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 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.
Warning: Do not read this book unless you want to quit your job!
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. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, high-end world travel, monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.
This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:
- How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week.
- how to outsource your life to overseas virtual sssistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want (page 113)
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs (page 209)
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist (page 65)
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work burts and frequent "mini-retirements"
Contents
First and Foremost
- FAQ - Doubters Read This
- Do I have to quit my job?
- Do I have to be a risk-taker?
- Do I have to be a single twenty-something?
- Do I have to travel? I just want more time.
- Do i need to be born rich?
- Do I need to be an Ivy League graduate?
- My Story and Why You Need This Book
- Chronology of a Pathology
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
Restricted Reading
Online Bonus Chapters
--How to Get $700,000 of Advertising for $10,000
--How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months
--Muse Math: Predicting the Revenue of Any Product
--Licensing: From Tae Bo to Teddy Ruxpin
--Real Licensing Agreement with Real Dollars
--Racier New Rich Case Studies and Interviews
--online Round-the-World (RTW) Trip Planner
Acknowledgements
Index
About The Author
TIMOTHY FERRISS, serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond, has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Maxim, and other media. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a world-record holder in tango, a national champion in Chinese kickboxing, and an actor on a hit television series in Hong Kong. He is twenty-nine years old.
Product Details
Product Details
ISBN:9780307394392
Author:Ferriss, Timothy
Publisher:Crown Publishing Group
Author:Ferriss, Timothy
Subject:Self-Help : General
Publication Date:April 2007
Binding:eBooks
Language:English
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