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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc. Catalog: Book Release date: 2007-05-01 Media: Audio Cassette Number of pages: 200 Ean: 9780786168651 Book Isbn: 078616865X  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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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 methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with an entirely new way of living. The Four-Hour Work Week explains what a lifestyle entrepreneur is and why you should want to become one. It teaches you how to kill your job and design a life, the 80/20 rule and how it increases productivity, how to replace your dreams with goals, and more. Listeners 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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 Written on November 26, 2008 Summary: For Heartless Corporate-Drones only I read about this book in an in-flight magazine and thought it very much embodied my view of life: Don't delay your happiness or gratification until retirement. Seize the day and live it up now! However, I was terribly disappointed. First of all, definitely heed the Warning printed on the back of the book. I didn't even notice the warning until it was too late. But there it was the whole time: "WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU WANT TO QUIT YOUR JOB" I'm willing to quit my job, but you have to REALLY want to quit your job in order to do what this book says. You also have to have a meaningless job that requires almost ZERO work. I don't keep myself busy with busy-work at my job. I am genuinely busy with PRODUCTIVE, results-oriented work. I'm a mid-level manager at a large non-profit organization. A lot of my job consists of interviewing children and adults for our programs. This is not something I can out-source to India. The interviews have to be done in-person and I have to follow-up in-person. Even if I did have a job I could out-source to India, I wouldn't want to. To me, that is rather exploitive of a developing nation's people. Additionally, one of the suggested methods to becoming part of the "new Rich" seems basically to scam people online. I think BrainQUICKEN (the author's road to riches) is very much a scam. Finally, the author seems to dismiss seeking a deeper meaning to life. To me, exploiting people in a developing country, being completely lazy, and scamming people out of their money is not ethical and certainly not what I would recommend to anyone! I'm 28 and I've taken a four-month vacation in Guatemala and Honduras, scuba dived in the Galapagos, completed a study tour in Israel, and spent a month conducting research in Ghana. I've traveled extensively on five continents. And yet I found this book absolutely INFURIATING. If you are a corporate drone in a totally meaningless and worthless job, and you are free of the burden of any morals and ethics, this book is for you! Everyone else, move along. Written on November 25, 2008 Summary: I like the spirit of this book! This book has a lot of positive advice that can be used. As with any other lifestyle books, it's not easy to take on everything the author says verbatim. It is easy, though, to take some of the aspects of this and apply it to life. This book has a ton of inspiration! It definitely keeps a workaholic like myself, aware of just what I'm spending my work time on. It's help me to realize that some of the work I do can be outsourced. I've implemented that part of the book with satisfactory results. Sharing his love for travel, I do agree that the traditional two weeks per year is unacceptable for vacation. With all the technology available today, it is possible to have "working gettaways". I've also implemented this part with satisfactory results. Be mindful that Ferriss does seem to oversimplify a little. For instance, it's not as easy to start a profitable, automatic income generating, online business as he makes it out to be in "Income Autopilot". And getting your foreign virtual assistant to do most everything for you, is also not that easy. While I don't ascribe to the 9-5 lifestyle, I do love my work. As such, I can't see me dwindling my workweek down to four hours. What this has done for me, and why I do recommend this book, is it has aided me in finding creative ways to get the most out of life, while still putting in all the hours required to run my business. Written on November 23, 2008 Summary: Good idea! Lots of good ideas for those at certain "higher" levels in the corporate setting or self-employed. Still a good read - wish all employers would read it and see how much busy work America does - for others but possibly only a few usable ideas.  Written on November 23, 2008 Summary: Great book! This book helps me change my life. After read it I always have time for playing games and watching movies, in spite of many homework every week. It help me keep a fresh mind in every statement, and always work with my best. Written on November 23, 2008 Summary: Revolutionary Approach to Work and Life, Focus on What You Do Best, and Eliminate, Automate, or Outsource the Rest! Timothy Ferris shows people how to create their dream lives right now, rather than someday when they are "retired." Tim uses outsourcing, geographic arbitrage, and performance/productivity principles to transform his life from 80 hour workweeks to 4 hour workweeks, while making as much per month as he used to make in one year. The four big ideas to take and use from this book are: eliminate unnecessary and unimportant work from your life; automate anything that can be automated; use technological tools to work anywhere; and outsource work to others who can do the same task better, faster, and cheaper than you. I like how he applies the 80-20 rule not just to tasks, but to people and customers. Learning how to say "no" to the trivial allows you to say "yes" to the vital. You can transform services and information into products that automate themselves. If there is basic information that you always tell people, just write it, record it, or video it one time. It's as simple as making a website to pull your niche customers in, rather than making calls all day to push something on your market segment. Life is good when you earn in dollars and pay in pesos. If your work is related to computers or technology, you can just as easily type on your laptop on a beach as in a desk. I used this technique during a full-time school year to visit over 40 cities. Outsourcing your work is not about "taking advantage" of poor people. It's allowing each person to do what they do best. If you have a legal problem, do you apply to a law school and spend 4 years to get a license? Or do you just hire a lawyer? If you have to mow a lawn, do you go out and buy a new lawn mower? It's the same principle for most things in life. Are you treading water or swimming ahead? When you fall of a boat, you have to tread water or else you will drown. But, if all you do is tread water and stay in place, you will eventually drown. You have to swim ahead and move forward to get to your destination. In life, take three weeks to three months to learn how to tread the water, and then systemize, delegate, or outsource that task so you can focus on swimming ahead. There is no glory, no honor, and no reason to waste your most precious resource--your time--in anything that does not make you grow in life. Time is the great equalizer. We all have the same amount of time. It is what we do with our time that makes our lives so different. Are you spending your time treading water or swimming ahead? |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2007-05-01 | 2002-12-31 | 2007-05-10 | 1996-01-01 | 2007-03-30 | 1987-04-02 |
| Media | Audio Cassette | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 200 | 267 | 96 | 272 | 241 | 238 |
| Ean | 9780786168651 | 9780142000281 | 9781591841661 | 9780452273160 | 9780470095225 | 9780671646783 |
| Book Isbn | 078616865X | 0142000280 | 1591841666 | 0452273161 | 0470095229 | 0671646788 |
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