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The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated

Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
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The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated by Timothy Ferriss challenges traditional work conventions, suggesting strategies to increase productivity and achieve a lifestyle of personal freedom. Ferriss provides insights on outsourcing tasks, time management, and creating an autonomous income, aiming to inspire readers to design their perfect work-life balance. The book includes real-life examples and practical tips to help readers escape the 9-to-5 grind.
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This book may appeal to you if you're seeking to break free from the traditional 9-to-5 work model and want to explore ways to optimise efficiency and productivity. It offers innovative strategies for designing a lifestyle that balances work and leisure, appealing to those interested in entrepreneurship, time management, and personal development.

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The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan--there is no need to wait, especially in unpredictable economic times. Ferriss offers more than 50 practical tips, real-world templates, and tools for living like a millionaire.

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The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated by Timothy Ferriss is a transformative guide that challenges the traditional concept of a working life. Shattering the typical career path that revolves around endless hustling and deferred retirement, Ferriss presents a revolutionary blueprint to achieve financial independence and personal fulfilment. This book is perfect for anyone seeking to escape the confines of the 9-to-5 grind and design a life that maximises freedom and happiness.

In this groundbreaking work, Ferriss introduces the concept of 'lifestyle design', showing readers how to restructure their lives in order to have more leisure and freedom while still achieving significant financial success. With practical principles based on his own experience, Ferriss journeys from earning $40,000 per year while working 80 hours per week to making $40,000 per month while working merely 4 hours a week. His process involves leveraging skills such as outsourcing, automation, and managing time efficiently to radically transform one's lifestyle.

The expanded edition of The 4-Hour Workweek provides readers with over 100 pages of new and cutting-edge content. Readers will uncover:

  • Strategies to outsource tasks to overseas virtual assistants at minimal cost, freeing up time to focus on what truly matters.
  • Insights into how individuals, including blue-chip escape artists, can travel the globe extensively without needing to leave their jobs.
  • Methods to reduce workload by 50% in just 48 hours by applying the principles of a forgotten Italian economist, improving efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Tactics for trading a traditional, lifelong career for short, productive work periods coupled with frequent 'mini-retirements'.

This edition also includes real-world templates and actionable advice from readers who have successfully implemented Ferriss’s techniques to double their income, overcome common challenges, and reinvent their lives. The guidance provided allows you to eliminate email overload, negotiate effectively with bosses and clients, and even secure a private chef for surprisingly affordable prices.

Additionally, Ferriss offers insights adapted for the current economic landscape, outlining the latest tools and hacks to live like a diplomat or millionaire without the need for excessive wealth. With innovative high-tech shortcuts, Ferriss provides a toolkit to live a life rich with experiences, travel, and the pursuit of one’s true passions.

Prepare to rethink your approach to work and life. The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated is not just a book; it is a guide to re-engineering your life, right now, in an unpredictable world. Embrace the freedom to live life on your terms.

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The expanded and updated version of The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss has garnered enthusiastic acclaim from a diverse range of reviewers. Many praise it as a manifesto for a mobile lifestyle, offering a fresh perspective on achieving work-life balance and living your dreams in the present rather than in the distant future. The book is described as a revolutionary guide and a blueprint for lifestyle redesign, enabling individuals to increase productivity, gain more free time, and live life on their own terms.

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ISBN: 9780307465351

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 December 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 550g

Pages: 448

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About the Author

TIMOTHY FERRISS is a serial entrepreneur, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and angel investor/advisor (Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Uber, and 20+ more).  Best known for his rapid-learning techniques, Tim's books -- The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef -- have been published in 30+ languages. The 4-Hour Workweek has spent seven years on The New York Times bestseller list. Tim has been featured by more than 100 media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Outside, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and CNN. He has guest lectured in entrepreneurship at Princeton University since 2003. His popular blog www.fourhourblog.com 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 (www.upwave.com/tfx), teaches rapid-learning techniques for helping viewers to produce seemingly superhuman results in minimum time.

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