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The 4-Hour Work Week

Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
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The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss encourages readers to break free from the traditional 9-to-5 work model and design their ideal life. Ferriss shares strategies for outsourcing tasks, automating income, and prioritising what truly matters to achieve a more fulfilling and liberated lifestyle.
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You might enjoy this book if you're seeking to escape the 9-to-5 grind and create a more flexible and fulfilling lifestyle. It offers practical advice on time management, productivity, and outsourcing to help you work smarter, not harder.

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The 4-Hour Work Week

How to reconstruct your life? Whether your dream is experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book teaches you how to double your income, and how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want.

A new, expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller about reconstructing your life so that it's not all about work

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The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss is a groundbreaking and transformative guide that challenges conventional beliefs about work and life. Through a blend of insightful anecdotes, practical advice, and real-world examples, Ferriss provides readers with the blueprint to escape the confines of the traditional 9-to-5 grind. By leveraging modern technology and innovative thinking, this book presents a revolutionary approach to achieving financial independence, personal freedom, and a life defined by adventure and fulfilment.

Forget the old concept of retirement and 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, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or simply living more and working less, The 4-Hour Work Week is your essential guide. Ferriss demonstrates how to adopt a lifestyle where more is achieved with less effort, time, and stress, allowing you to reclaim control of your future.

This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:

  • How Tim went from $40,000 per year and working 80 hours per week to making $40,000 per month and working only 4 hours per week.
  • How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for just $5 per hour and focus on what truly matters to you.
  • 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 long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent 'mini-retirements.'

This updated and expanded edition includes:

  • More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point.
  • Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating email, negotiating with bosses and clients, or hiring a private chef for less than €5 a meal.
  • How lifestyle design principles can be adapted to unpredictable economic times.
  • The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without actually being either.

The 4-Hour Work Week is not just a book, but a movement that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people across the globe to rethink their approach to work and living. Whether you are a business owner, an employee, a student, or someone seeking a change, Ferriss’s compelling narrative and actionable strategies will motivate you to design a life you love, free from the constraints of traditional employment.

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Praised as a much-needed guide to the mobile lifestyle, The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss has been lauded for its innovative approach to achieving work-life balance. It has captured the attention of overworked individuals, offering strategies from mini-retirements to outsourcing tasks, with endorsements from notable figures across various industries. The book is seen as revolutionary, providing actionable insights to transform how people manage their work and personal lives.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780091929114

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vermilion

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 407g

Pages: 416

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Tim W.
Changed my perception of work

Read this book again recently and remembered how when I first read it a long time ago it completely altered my view on what it meant to work, how to be efficient, and the different paths that one can take in life. The idea of mini-retirements still carries through to today. This book can be a little extreme with some of its ideas but it will challenge you and inspire you!

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Kevsta
Some great tips

While I’m not sure I subscribe wholly to the concept of a 4 hour work week, this book does include many useful tips for getting time back in your day. Up to you how you then use it.

About the Author

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People" and as a Forbes "Names You Need to Know," and is the seventh "most powerful" personality on Newsweek's Digital 100 Power Index. He is an early-stage tech investor and advisor, working with Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, and over fifty other organizations, and the author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers- The 4-Hour Workweek,The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. His podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, was one of iTunes's "Best of 2015," typically among the top 30 out of more than 300,000 podcasts. Tim has been called "the Oprah of audio" due to the sales impact of the podcast, and past guests include Jamie Foxx, General Stanley McChrystal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Norton, and more than a hundred others.

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