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The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Ferris
Creator: Ray Porter
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  698 reviews
Sales Rank: 244486
Format: Audiobook
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Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 6
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 4.3 x 2.8
ISBN: 0786149256
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780786149254
ASIN: 0786149256
Publication Date: April 9, 2007
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Product Description
Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years--a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living. Readers can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.
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 Good ideas.. only if you had run your own business for a few years July 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Selling a dream" books usually sell well and I am not surprised this book sold well. Everyone wants to work less and earn more. Lose weight and look better.. etc.
But let's get real by just examining the title. You will NOT work for 4 hours only, if you work for someone else. Unless you want to get paid for 4 hours worth of work only. This alone will eliminate most of the working force.
You will NOT work for 4 hours if you just started a new business. You will pour sweat and blood getting the business started. Many of the ideas in the book are based on outsourcing daily tasks. You can't outsource anything until you learn how your business runs first and then get other people working for you. For the simple fact that you have to tell what and how to do it and you need to learn yourself first.
So eventually this leaves a tiny tiny percentage of the population who can pull this off. Really.. we need to be realistic first. Do you know any Billionaire or multimillionaire who works for 4 hours a week only?
The book has some good ideas which one can use. However I feel the author is going to extremes to outsource too many daily activities. The author mentions that he doesn't read the daily papers but instead learns about current events by hanging with people who would tell him. I don't know about you but if I meet with people and I know nothing about current events, I would feel stupid near them. I enjoy reading from physical paper. How long does it take to scan a paper?
I feel that the author is trying to squeeze every minute of his life to be more productive by mostly having other people do the work. This is not living like a normal human being. So the author now has all this free time.. to do what? To dance in Argentina?
Having fun is nice but a good balance between work and fun is what a human should be seeking and not concentrating on "how can I get someone else do this for me". It's OK to this but the author is overdoing it. The newspaper example I quoted is an absurd example of "outsourcing". The author should already have enough time to read the paper from all the outsourcing he has done already!
 Interesting..... might not be working hard but smart from here on in. July 7, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just read the book not only will it help you it will help you help others. I hope I can reach his status or maybe even his type of life.
The way we all should live our lives July 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tim Ferriss hits the nail on the head with his ideas and approach to living life. We all get into the habit of thinking we should work 8 hours a day and sleep 8 hours a day, folks.............thats two thirds or 66% of your life, sleeping and banging away at a computer in a tiny cramped little cubicle, its disgusting. Break the habit, break free and live the life you are supposed to be living, the life you can live. Find a niche business, start a little online company, follow Tims advice and start building an automated life. Working is the WORST way to make money. If you want free, and to earn a living, and possibly become independently wealthy, STOP what you are doing, figure out a way. It may take time to build up a side business and get it automated, but at some point you can stop working, have money coming in, be doing hardly anything, and have 35% of your life back to do with what you want. Read his book, over and over it, take notes, visit all the websites. Take 3 months and put all other books away, study his material 2-3 hours a day, and you will get there. Peace and good luck.
 The 4-Hour Workweek July 6, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This order made 6/5/08 and has yet to be received one month later. I have sent emails to seller twice to request update and later to cancel order. No response and/or action taken to date. Very disappointed with failure to communicate and would highly discourage use by others.
4-Hour Work Week July 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think I could write chapters about this book but I'll keep it short and to the point (Tim would like that); it has profoundly changed my life and lifestyle. I am deeply grateful for Ferris's work. Wow!
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