The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

The New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Body shows readers how to live more and work less, now with more than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: • How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week• 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

"He claims his methods can be applied universally, but I'm not so sure." according to bookwormthemillionth. I had heard a lot of people rave about this book before I finally picked it up and decided to read it for myself. I'm glad that I read it, but I don't think it was quite as life-changing for me as it was for some of my friends. Don't get me wrong, Ferriss makes some excellent points and he's got some really great tips and tricks in here, I'm just not sure how universal they really are.First of all, when I picked up the book, I didn't expect that he was literally working only four hours a week. I thought he was just talking about ways to spend less time working, but that "The He claims his methods can be applied universally, but I'm not so sure. bookwormthemillionth I had heard a lot of people rave about this book before I finally picked it up and decided to read it for myself. I'm glad that I read it, but I don't think it was quite as life-changing for me as it was for some of my friends. Don't get me wrong, Ferriss makes some excellent points and he's got some really great tips and tricks in here, I'm just not sure how universal they really are.First of all, when I picked up the book, I didn't expect that he was literally working only four hours a week. I thought he was just talking about ways to spend less time working, but that "The 4-Hour" just sounded good (sin. -Hour" just sounded good (sin. Amy_Adanin said Bit of a sham. Just reading this was exhausting, much less doing everything he says in the book. I really don't get how the author defines "work", because it sounds to me like he's doing a lot of WORK to avoid work. So you outsource administrative parts of your life - okay, but you still have to spend time finding the company, issuing instructions, assessing their quality, providing feedback I think he's very creative about how he defines work. There are also some really irresponsible recommendations, like setting an auto-reply on your email so that every time someone writes you, they're spammed with a response. Imagine. Wayne Stiles said Great Ideas for Efficiency and Productivity. This book has some super, super ideas for efficiency and many creative suggestions for outsourcing, virtual assistants, and self-management.If your worldview is anything but humanistic, however, you may take issue with the me-first mindset that governs some suggestions Ferriss makes. (Like lying to get want you want.)If you're willing to sidestep a few compromising suggestions, you'll find a great resource for productivity.

Whether you're a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life!" —Phil Town, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rule #1"The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work?  A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it!"   —Michael E. He tears apart conventional assumptions until he finds a better way." —Dan Partland, Emmy Award-Winning Producer; American High, Welcome to the Dollhouse"The 4-Hour Workweek
He has guest lectured in entrepreneurship at Princeton University since 2003. His popular blog fourhourblog has 1M+ monthly readers, and his Twitter account @tferriss was selected by Mashable as one of only five “Must-Follow” accounts for entrepreneurs. Tim’s primetime TV show, The Tim Ferriss Experiment (upwave/tfx), teaches rapid-learning techniques for helping viewers to produce seemingly superhuman results in minimum time.. TIMOTHY FERRI