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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Crown
Category: EBooks
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  705 reviews
Sales Rank: 39
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
ASIN: B000PDZF70
Publication Date: April 24, 2007
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Product Description
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Great read, But Vaguely Suspect July 17, 2008
Great read, inspirational.
But in a sea of to-do's--many reasonable and beneficial tweaks in lifestyle and thought--I found myself feeling like I was trying to be "sold" something.
So in brainstorming/researching my "muse"--we all found ours because it's that easy, right guys?--I came to the conclusion I'd need to find a drop-shipping service as to remotely conduct my business.
Mr. Ferriss offers several recommendations in sourcing one's muse (e-business for those who haven't read this). "Finding Manufacturing or Products to Resell", which an everyday reader may be most partial to because it requires the least effort and you never see the goodies, lists several websites as resources.
Under this heading, Thomasnet is listed and seems interesting as a good start. Following that is dropshipsource (Worldwide Brands?), which seems vaguely fishy and charges approximately $500 for a lifetime membership--whatever that means. Who owns these websites? I used to do reporting and immediately feel suspicious when I just spent 19.99 on the book and am already getting more sales pitches.
But as this is the reviews section, I must be fair in my evaluation of the book overall: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich is worth reading as a motivator. No one deserves to spend their life in a cubicle (yep, I'm still in mine). I also like how Mr. Ferriss stresses that one's time and energy are sacred, and to be treated as such.
Thanks for reading!
 Nonsense July 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As someone who has worked toward and basicially succeeded at living the life promoted by this book, I can say that the book is largely nonsense. The problem is that we live in a competitive world, and any business with margins sufficient to let the owner work a few hours a week will compete with another company that charges less and the owner works half a week, and that company will compete with another company that charges even less and the owner works a full week. Yes, for those of us whose work involves sitting in front of a computer, the Internet can let us work from about anywhere--but we still have to work.
 Great Book! July 15, 2008
This is a very great book for those that are trying to find freedom and a lifestyle, that normally would have to wait until you retire.
You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It Too July 15, 2008
Hi Everyone,
Yes, the book is not perfect, it has flaws. But as a role model Timothy shows us that positive aggression, awareness and assertiveness can get us our needs met.
The main needs this book addresses is being liberated from a desk job so you can travel if you want, and being liberating from working like a slave. I have already been on a track of working for myself but this book was still helpful. I learned some good marketing techniques, and got to see insight on how to get a small online business up and running. I wouldn't hang on too tightly to the examples given of online businesses the concept of creating income creatively is what is more important.
Timothy is open to many possibilities for success and he teaches readers that you can live life according to a new set of rules. Why sit around and have a boring, unfulfilling life and waste time working. Rather, work effectively, take control, and live your dreams. What is great about this message is that Timothy shows us a method for doing this. Find a way to make money that doesn't require you. Be the boss. Probably the best tip from the book is to not waste time. Timothy emphasizes spending our time on where we are most effective, and not wasting our time wandering through life without intention.
I think this is a great book that will help many people switch to more pleasurable careers.
Ramiel Nagel author of Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition
Transform the way you think July 12, 2008
In this book, Timothy Ferriss gives us step by step process for reducing the amount of time we actually spend working. He makes a strong case for not waiting until retirement to travel and do the things you want to do, by promoting the idea of mini-retirements. He endorses the concept of outsourcing by giving simple instructions, including company names for outsourcing. His thoughts on lifestyle design changed the way I was viewing what is possible in my life.
Though this book is edgy and has caused many people to poke holes in his theory, it was well worth the time it took to read it. As a business coach, I am assigning this book to my clients and we are extracting the concepts that make individual sense, and creating execution strategies to implement them.
Even if you don't agree with every part of Tim's philosophy (and I didn't), you can gain by reading this book because it makes you re-consider what you thought to be true, and promotes uncommon thinking. This kind of thinking is what causes positive transformation in your life and your business.
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