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| The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Ferriss
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (781 reviews)
Sales Rank: 362
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307353133
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780307353139
ASIN: 0307353133
Publication Date: April 24, 2007
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Tosh November 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
picked up this book after seeing so much about it in the press.
It's simply tosh.
He offers views on time management, outsourcing, automatic business processes, and travel, that any half-intelligent individual knows already...unless like Ferris you exhibit misanthropic tendencies, e.g. live on a low-information diet, never read a newspaper, only take emergency phone calls, avoid e-mail, divert customers to call centres and don't socialise or belong to any community.
If you want to run an online vitamin supplements business this book may hold some value. Otherwise, use your time more effectively, and save yourself some money. Take it from me.
The one star is only for including Thoreau's seminal work Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) on the reading list.
Now that is a book worth reading.
 Live life, don't postpone it. October 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tim Ferriss is one over-achiever. Check out the list of what he has done in the first chapter. Amazing! For us mere mortals, he still offers great advice for changing your life.
Some top quotes and ideas from the book:
- Lifestyle Design. You don't have to live the high stress, long hours life. You can assess the lifestyle you want and then design it. You don't have to work all your life to sit on a beach at 65...you can go sit on one now for very little money.
- Outsource as much as possible. Weigh up how much time you spend on things. Automate them. Outsource them. Pay other people to do them if it gives you more time. Spend $30 on a cleaner once a week and spend a few hours with the family. Get someone from http://www.elance.com to write your articles for you. Virtual assistants are the way forward. [I have used several since reading this book and they are brilliant]
- Be, do , have. Decide what you want in your life. Who do you want to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to have? and then get on with achieving it. Life is too short to be stuck in the office. Set extreme goals that are worth achieving. Question everything.
What are you passionate and excited about? Go do that.
- Elimination. Have a "not to do" list and make sure you don't do it. Don't watch TV. Cut down your email to once a day (and then once a week). Don't waste time being busy. Be productive in less time and spend the difference achieving your splendid goals.
- Find your muse. Discover a way to make money by virtual and outsourced means and free up your time to do what you love. This may take time to achieve, but you can make a plan and achieve it, so you can live a freer life.
- Empower people to make decisions without you. So you can have free time.
- If you don't set the rules, they will be set for you.
- Living more is the objective.
- Know what you will do with this abundance of time. Look at your passions and missions. Move from a life of survival to one of passion and excitement.
- Experiences override possessions every time. Live life, don't postpone it.
I found this book inspirational and it is JAM-PACKED with information and links to great sites!
 The 4-hour Work Week October 28, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well written book. The information is presented in an easy to follow format with tangible examples. A must read for those in, or falling into, the 45,50,60 hour work week.
It changed my life! You have to October 28, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love love this book and it has changed my life. If you love this book and this review is helpful, click yes so we can get a good review on the 1st page.
Sounds to me like some reviewers expect too much out of the book. It's not magic. Tim shows how he works a 4 hour work week and the steps that you can take to follow his lead and do the same thing. He also references all the books that led him to where he is so that you can read them also and get a better understanding of the concepts. He puts the whole process together and shows us how he did it. He tells you the whole process of actually how to do it. There are plenty of websites out there created by readers of this book whose lives have been changed just by reading this book. It really gets you thinking. If you are not an entrepreneur then ya it's not a good book for you because you do need to have your own ideas. It's very inspirational.
The people that are giving the book bad reviews are just not the entrepreneur type and thats OK. You can tell because of their comments like "it's not realistic". It's very realistic and there are plenty of websites and blogs full of people, right now, making it happen in their life right now and talking freely about it.
Don't buy this book if you don't want to take the time to come up with some of your own ideas about the type of business you would have.
Don't buy the book if you don't believe that is is possible to make more money and work less hours.
This book was the spark I needed to get the flame going!
Challenge Your Assumptions October 26, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ask yourself if it is necessary to work forty hours; ask yourself if you should work your whole life to provide for a few lean, relaxing years at the end of it. Timothy Ferriss comes back with some surprising answers in "The 4-Hour Workweek". Take mini-retirements throughout your career, or the fact that 10% of your customers will create 90% of your headaches, so get rid of them! Outsource everything and follow your passions around the globe. He has done it, and in a way that works for Tim Ferriss, and he tells you exactly how he did it. Sure, Mr. Ferriss is young and brash, a 30-year-old with all the answers, and judging by some of the venom in the 1-star reviews, he rubbed a few people the wrong way. But that's fine, if you disagree with Ferriss just continue your forty hours chained to a desk, and those who grasp what Ferriss is telling them will be scuba diving in Tahiti while web sites fill their bank accounts. The beauty of modern technology is that it is smart and barely needs us, and can work basically unsupervised. By synthesizing a way to exploit computers and globalization Timothy Ferriss is a part of the future, and the stalwarts from the past are not going to like it. If you read Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat", or his new "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" you might begin to see Ferriss as a part of the solution. Tim Ferriss' carbon footprint is probably quite minimal as he uses existing infrastructure to produce his products rather than building factories and warehousing. Now he is living on a beach somewhere in the tropics using no electricity, "off the grid" and being lambasted for it by people living in 5000-square-foot McMansions.
To directly answer some of the outsourcing criticisms: outsourcing your labor to where it is cheaper, "Chindia" as Friedman calls it, is not exporting slave labor. The reason GM sold more cars in China last year than it did in the U.S. is because of the sweatshops that pay $2 a day. That may sound bad, but it's more than double the amount the same young lady could make breaking her back in the fields. Now she can take that money and get an education, feed her family, or join the middle class and buy a GM product. The new middle class of Chindia is the salvation of American manufacturing.
There is no way a book like this could rate 1-star, as it challenges all of the assumptions that make up your life, the use of your time, working through to retirement, and retirement itself, a very important subject for millions of Baby Boomers. Sometimes it hurts to question all of those rules that you have lived your life by, but it is healthy to do so. So read the book, take a couple of its points on board, or dive in and join Ferriss in some exotic locale base jumping off cliffs while the automated market works for you. And remember, all of these current free market experts, the 80-hour-week guys who have been operating without oversight for so long are the same guys who just crashed our economy into a brick wall at 100mph. The 80-hour-week guys got it all wrong, maybe "The 4-Hour Workweek" guy has some better ideas.
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