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The 4-Hour Workweek
- 341 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 2007
- 41 editions
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1 About this book
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, first published in 2007, is Timothy Ferriss's guide to what he calls lifestyle design. He rejects the usual plan of working long hours for decades in order to relax in retirement, and argues for a life with more free time and mobility now. His method has four steps: define what you actually want, eliminate unimportant work, automate your income through a small business that runs without you and through outsourcing, and free yourself from the office by working remotely. Ferriss illustrates each step with his own experiments and with stories of people who have done the same.
- Personal growth
- Business
- Finance
- Quality of life
- Actualisation de soi
- Success in business
- Career development
- Relationships
2 What to expect
A self-help and business book that argues against saving life for retirement and for working far less now. Its method is to cut unimportant work, hand tasks to remote assistants, build a small automated online business and negotiate remote work, illustrated with the author's own experiments. The tone is brash and salesmanlike, some of the tools it names have dated, and the four-hour promise is closer to a provocation than a plan.
Good for readers who want: escaping the nine-to-five, productivity shortcuts, and a provocative business read.
3 About Timothy Ferriss
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Timothy Ferriss
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