The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
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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 … More >>
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
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Brian Moore said :
February 23, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Just between you and me, folks – and keeping it real is what I’m ’bout, yo – but the mark-up on rock is bonafide, y’all, so invest in some rock and forget this four-hour shizzit. I got it down to three point four!
Rating: 5 / 5
cmettler-ArtMaven said :
February 23, 2010 at 5:13 pm
As a retiree (finding out what to make of the rest of my life) this book was helpful and stimulating. I read it out of curiosity, not because I believed the premise. But, after the reading, I can see so many useful points. What works for one person might not work for another.
Someone has to work regular hours to keep the economy running. What if we all worked four weeks? Many things would fall apart. But periodically? Very tempting. Is life all about being rich? Aren’t there many ways to be rich? It doesn’t have to be all about the dollars. Years back I read “Your Money or Your Life” by Joe Dominguez. Now that was a lightning bolt! If all life is about is making money, why even be here?
So, here is my list that makes sense to me:
1. The 4 Hour Work Week – to realize that there are efficiencies to be found in every day and to discover some very practical ways of implementing them.
2. Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence – to put money into perspective and learn that thrift is not a dirty word. Consumerism and the waste it generates continue to get a black eye. So, do we really need that all that money?
3. Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires, by Scott Fox – a useful blueprint for choosing a shorter work week by developing an Internet business that operates from home; taps into one’s own life style and uses available resources.
I don’t want to work 60 hour weeks. I don’t want to trade my days for dollars. I want to live simpler and I can do it by taking the heart from these three books and implementing them in my daily life.
Rating: 3 / 5
Keith I. Pascal said :
February 23, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I loved reading this book.
I, too, dream of renting villas in Tuscany, living out my dreams in foreign lands, and pulling in ten grand a month.
Not there quite yet.
The author’s plan seems very doable, but then there is that marketing element. It’s not so easy to sell $10,000 each and every month, automatically, even with a great product.
I tried to market Tiptoeing to Tranquility: The Parable for Finding Safety and Comfort in Dangerous Times, right after reading his The 4-Hour Workweek. To be honest, Wrist Locks: From Protecting Yourself to Becoming an Expert is still a much better seller. (I sort of wished that the author’s method would have been ‘the answer.’)
Still, whenever I need a dose of enthusiasm that it somehow can be accomplished, I give this book a reread. Great fun.
Rating: 4 / 5
Jonathan Browne said :
February 23, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Please don’t hesitate to buy this book. The material is all solid, practicle, and almost all of it is immediately applicable.
Rating: 5 / 5
greimalkin said :
February 23, 2010 at 7:54 pm
The first one was so bad that when I see it in the bookstore I want to go over there and sweep the whole lot of them off the shelves!
Rating: 1 / 5