The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9
This book is very revolutionary teaching new and better ways to cut out a lot of the results of our having to be in “control” of our work life.
The book is built around the word DEAL.
Step 1: D is for definition
Cautions and comparions: how to burn $1,000,000 a night
Rules that change the rules: everything popular is wrong
Dodging bullets: fear-setting and escaping paralysis
System reset: being unreasonable and unambiguous
Step II: E is for elimination
The end of time management: illusions and Italians
The low-information diet: cultivating selective ignorance
Interrupting interuption and the art of refusal
Step III: A is for automation
Outsourcing life: off-loading the rest and a taste of geoarbitrage
Income auto-pilot 1: finding the muse
Income auto-pilot 2: testing the muse
Income auto-pilot 3: MBA—management by absence
Step IV: L is for liberation
Disappearing act: how to escape the office
Beyond repair: killing your job
Mini-retirements: embracing the mobile lifestyle
Filling the void: adding life after subtracting work
The top 13 New Rich mistakes
The last chapter: an email you need to read
Ferriss also includes several really great bonus chapters.
