The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss

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Personal Growth & Leadership

While running his sports-nutrition company on exhausting hours, Timothy Ferriss wrote a case against the plan you were probably handed: work for decades, then live in retirement. His alternative is lifestyle design, where time and mobility count as currency alongside income, and retirement comes in pieces along the way.

Core ideas
  • DEAL: Definition, Elimination, Automation and Liberation are the four steps for cutting work, automating income and using the freed time now.
  • Muse and arbitrage: A low-maintenance automated business earns the income, virtual assistants in India handle routine tasks, and you earn in a strong currency while living somewhere cheaper.
  • Mixed reviews: Wired praised the remote-work advice. That said, it called the writing formulaic, and Jacobin's Meagan Day criticized the advice to become a fake expert.
Published2007
Pages308
ISBN9780307353139
ReadJun 2021

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