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

Timothy Ferriss

ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9

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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.