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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a self-help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur.^[1] The book has spent more than four years on The New York Times Best Seller List, has been translated into 40 languages and has sold more than 2.1 million copies worldwide.^[2][3][4] It deals with what Ferriss refers to as 'lifestyle design' and repudiates the traditional 'deferred' life plan in which people work grueling hours and take few vacations for decades and save money in order to relax after retirement.

Background[edit]

Ferriss developed the ideas present in The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW) while working 14-hour days at his sports nutrition supplement company, BrainQUICKEN.^[5] Frustrated by the overwork and lack of free time, Ferriss took a 3-week sabbatical to Europe. During that time and continued travels throughout Europe, Asia, and South America, Ferriss developed a streamlined system of checking email once per day and outsourcing small daily tasks to virtual assistants.^[6] His personal escape from a workaholic lifestyle was the genesis of the book.^[7]

The format of The 4-Hour Workweek took shape during a series of lectures Ferriss delivered on high-tech entrepreneurship at Princeton University, his alma mater.^[8] The lectures (and book) described Ferriss' own experiences in company automation and lifestyle development.^[8]

Reception[edit]

The New York Times noted that Ferriss spends far more than 4 hours per week in blogging and self-promotion, which Ferriss describes as 'evangelizing.'^[9]USA Today commented: 'If it all sounds too good to be true, maybe it is. Or maybe not. Clearly, selective ignorance, farming out chores and applying the 80/20 principle have paid off for Ferriss.'^[10]Wired praised the book's ideas for telecommuting and its pre-retirement advice, but faulted it for 'formulaic writing' and that 'nearly every idea [is] taken to an extreme. No sense of work being anything more than a paycheck'.^[11] Leslie Garner of The Telegraph noted that the book had a 'punchy writing style' and that Ferriss had 'struck a chord with his critique of workers' slavish devotion to corporations.'^[12]

The book received coverage also through Fast Company,^[13]ABC News,^[5]The Today Show, Newsweek,^[14] and MSNBC.^[15]

References[edit]

1. ^Ferriss, Timothy (2007). The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-307-35313-9.
2. ^Best-Known Projects. Publishers Marketplace.
3. ^Hardcover Business Best Sellers. The New York Times. May 1, 2011.
4. ^Bio. FourHourWorkWeek.com/Blog.
5. ^ ^abManey, Kevin; Chapula, Andrea. Tim Ferriss Wants You to Get A Life. ABC News. October 11, 2007.
6. ^Rosenbloom, Stephanie. The World According to Tim Ferriss. The New York Times. March 25, 2011.
7. ^Ohannessian, Kevin. Leadership Hall of Fame: Tim Ferriss, Author of 'The 4-Hour Workweek'. Fast Company. January 20, 2011.
8. ^ ^abHall, Cornelia. Ferriss '00 takes the day off. The Daily Princetonian. May 9, 2007.
9. ^Williams, Alex. Too Much Information? Ignore It. The New York Times. November 11, 2007.
10. ^Archer, Michelle. Review: You, too, can enjoy 4-hour workweek, the author says. USA Today. June 10, 2007.
11. ^Tweney, Dylan. Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek? You Should Be So Lucky. Wired. June 15, 2007.
12. ^Garner, Leslie. Tim Ferriss: the clock watcher. The Telegraph. May 7, 2008.
13. ^Scoble, Robert. Timothy Ferriss and 4-Hour Workweek. Fast Company. March 3, 2010.
14. ^Jerry Guo, The World’s Best Guinea Pig Jan 4, 2011
15. ^4-Hour workweek: How to escape your 9-5 job. MSNBC.com. June 25, 2007.

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The 4 Hour Work Week teaches the readers how to escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the growing army of “new rich” digital nomads.

Contents

Bullet Summary

• You don’t need to be rich to live like a rich
• Working a job you don’t like is a waste of life
• Time and freedom are equally important as money -and you can have them all-

The 4 Hour Summary

About The Author: Tim Ferris is an American author, entrepreneur, investor and a big celebrity at the intersection of “self-development” and “solopreneurs”.

Introduction

Tim Ferris calls the new generation of people who earn money while enjoying the freedom of no fixed place and time “the New Rich”, abbreviated to NR.
These are the overarching steps to become a New Rich for The 4 Hour Work Week:

1. Definition: what do you want? In the 4 hour work week it’s a good life of experience free of grueling work and rigid structures. I’m in!
2. Elimination: cut all distractions, material clutter, useless tasks, focus on the 20% producing 80% of results
3. Automation: outsource, hire VA, build processes that run without you (read The E-Myth)
4. Liberation: now… You’re free.

Millionaire Without Millions

Do you need to work like a slave to live like a millionaire? Tim Ferris says that the common sense rules of the world are nothing but fragile collections of socially reinforced illusions.

Meaning: no, being a millionaire and living like a millionaire are two different things. You don’t need to slave away at a desk on a grueling, soul crashing 9-5.

Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty

Money Isn’t Freedom

Tim Ferris makes a compelling point that lots of money and much ownership is not great, and that sometimes it ends up being enslaving and oppressing.

They have riches, but the riches actually have them

Money Multipliers: WWW

Money is multiplied in life depending on the quantity of “W” you control in life, such as:

• When you do it
• Where you do it
• With whom you do it

The 10 Commandments

Tim outlines 10 rules that you need to consider and keep in mind;

1. Retirement Is Worst-Case Insurance. Working your whole life to enjoy the last years is a fool’s errand
2. Interest and Energy Are Cyclical. Alternating work and rest is necessary to work at your full potential
3. Less Is Not Laziness. Our culture glorifying sacrifice over productivity is bogus
4. The Timing is Never Right. It’s never the right moment for significant changes, and that’s the exact reason why you should do them
5. Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission. Don’t give anyone the opportunity to stifle your growth opportunities
6. Emphasize Strengths, Skip Weaknesses. Also espoused by StrengthsFinder 2.0
7. Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. As in the example of money, as also explained in Taoist philosophy
8. Money Alone Is Not the Solution.
9. Relative Income > Absolute Income. The per year income is arbitrary and misleading. Time is equally important and it becomes more important once you reach the minimum amount for your goals
10. Distress Is Bad.

Conquering Fear

Tim Ferris uses some techniques from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.
Here’s his recipe to beat fear:

1. Define what’s the worst case scenario
2. Identify how could fix or improve on that worst case scenario
3. Define the benefits

You’ll see most of the times that the worst case scenario is not that bad or you can take steps to either prevent it or fix it.
And the upside potential will still be there.

Conquering fear = defining fear

It’s Crowded In The Middle

99% of people in the world are convinced they cannot achieve great things, so the aim for average. It’s crowded and the level of competition is the fiercest for mediocre spots.

If you’re insecure, don’t worry: that’s what everyone else is. Don’t overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.

DreamLining

There’s less competition for bigger goals and it will provide with an adrenaline infusion -read The Maigc of Thinking Big-.
Ferris defines “dreamlining” because it puts a timeline on what sounds like unrealistic goals.

Don’t overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.

Don’t Get Stuck Making More & More

The 4 Hour Work Week introduces a slight variation of the hedonic treadmill.

Ferris says that people keep working when they use a financial goal instead of defining what they want and how they will remove themselves from their business.
They will keep repeating themselves “I’ll work till I make X money”, but X is a moving a target and keeps increasing.

Until I make X money is code for “fat man in BMW“

Tim Ferris then says how he escaped the US after he was fired to avoid taking a Uzi into a McDonald and becoming a fat man in a BMW (hilarious).

NR is doing exciting things, not just owning enviable things

The Busy Myth

Tim Ferris says we live in a world where “busy” is more important than “productive”.
Being busy is a form of laziness: lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. And being overwhelmed is as unproductive as doing nothing and far more unpleasant and unhealthier.

Busy is a form of laziness

Escape the Office

In an office environment you are expected to work 40 hours minimum no matter if you can produce the same results in 5.
But a 9-5 is not the kind of place where you want to be productive, because the expectation will be to produce 8 times more to fill the 40+hours.
9-5 is arbitrary, a collective social agreement and a dinosaur of old legacies: you you don’t need that.

Doing less is the path of the productive

Pareto & Parkinson

Tim Ferris introduces the Pareto and Parkinson’s law to be more productive:

1. Focus 80% of your time on the 20% that produces the most results (Pareto)
2. Shorten the work time to limit your tasks to the important

Don’t be busy: be productive!

Outsource & Delegate

The goal is to free your time to focus on better and bigger things, so even when you can do it yourself more cheaply it can still make sense to outsource.

Delegation dangers:

1. Automation to inefficient operations magnifies the inefficiency
2. Automation applied to efficient operations will magnify the efficiency

And don’t forget:

1. Eliminate before you delegate: never delegate something that can be eliminated
2. Never delegate something that can be automated

Picking a Market

And here Ferris’ top tips for picking a good market:

• Know the Market

Don’t speculate about your target market. Be a member of your target market instead so you know it inside out.

• Pick a Niche

Don’t go broad: too much free information, too many competitors. Don’t do dogs and pets lover, do training German Shepard instead.

• Be First

The author recommends you become the largest, best or first. Be a big fish in a small pond instead of a big fish in a big pond.
Tim Ferris prefers first.

• Price High

Less competition, more customers with money who will return and complain less. Between 50 and 200, higher customers need to speak to someone.

• One Clear Sentence

Your main benefit should be one sentence. And clear.
Tim Ferris uses Apple’s example of “one thousand songs in your pocket”, which later Sinek will also use for his equally great Start with WHY.

People can dislike, but should never misunderstand you

Getting Fired is Great

Tim Ferris quit 3 jobs and got fired from all the rest.

He says that it’s a God sent benefit to you.
Most people won’t quit, but someone else makes the decision for you so you don’t have to sit in the wrong job for the rest of your life.
I can only quit Tim Ferris here because it’s so eloquently beautiful:

Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and they die a slow spiritual death over 30 to 40 years of tolerating the mediocre

God, I can’t even start on how much I love that quote!

The average man is a conformist accepting misery with the stoicism of a cow in the rain

Ferri’s path into entrepreneurship has been similar to my own path, where I just couldn’t take working for mediocre people anymore.
I discuss the motivation behind ThePowerMoves’ business here:

Effectiveness & Further Tips

• Don’t finish what you start if it’s not worth it
• Don’t read unless you need it immediately
• Learn to be difficult and assertive
• Don’t worry to offend someone when requesting effective communication: hard feelings pass, foolish behavior sticks
• Check emails only once a day
• Batch things together and address them all together

The 4 Hour Workweek Criticism

There is much criticism to Tim Ferris online, including many of the claims he makes about his awards, successes and

I don’t have enough free time to investigate his background and pick sides.
One of the reasons Ferris attracted criticism though is that both his advice and personal background sometimes fall into a gray area.

For example:

• 4 Hour Expert

I didn’t like much the tips on how to sell your expertise by faking it.

Yes, Tim Ferris doesn’t exactly tell you to “fake it”, but let’s not BS each other here, what he proposes his basically to build some easy reputation to then pitch your products.

It reminds me of some snake oil salesman who hit it big without having the expertise:

• “Brain Quickening Pills” background

Also, Tim Ferris was selling “brain quickening pills”, and.. Oh well, let’s not get down that rabbit hole now :).

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CONS

• Time Wasted in Details

The 4 Hour Work Week wants to be an how to book, so the details suit the goal.
But in my opinion, it gets too much at times when he provides URLs and phone numbers (!) of companies, or talks too long about virtual assistants.

• Scatterbrained

From meaning of life to speed reading to getting cheaper tickets: I had the same feeling as for The 4 Hour Body and Tools of Titans. Such as, a bit too many topics in one book.
But I have to add this: I enjoyed them all.

• Genetic, Mass Tourism Travel Tips

Tim Ferris says that your destination is as safe as your place and that worries are overplayed. But that’s a wild generalization only valid for virgin first time travelers -and even there, plenty of exceptions-.

• Misleading Information on Favelas

Just a little later Ferris says he avoided favelas because of civilians with machine guns and pedestrians wielding machetes. Where did he get that idea?
The movie City of God.
Far from me to say favelas are safe -they’re not- but Ferris isn’t combating generalizations with that.
You can enter favelas in relative safety, they have electricity and running water.

• Imprecise Travel Tips

Travel tips tend to be quick and dirty, not adding much value in my opinion. Ferris mentions Taipei mentioned as part of his Chinese recommendation, but only Chinese people believe Taipei is in China :).

• Sound Self Aggrandizing

Oh well, Ferris:

I could be racing motorcycles in Europe, scubadiving on a private island in Panama, resting under a palm tree between kickboxing sessions in Thailand or dancing tango in Buenos Aires.

He’s just telling a story, but it does sound a bit like tooting his own horn at times.

• Less Applicable Today

As of today (2019) some of the advice and “how to” information in The 4 Hour Workweek is oldish.
I live in Berlin and the cheap rent Ferris boasts is double what he mentions, if not triple.
I’m not sure his business ideas area also as relevant, I’ve met plenty of people who did the same as Ferris did in supplement and nutrition stuff.
But there’s certainly is a lot of information that is valid any time, anywhere.

• Poor Pick Up Advice

The advise he gives to ask women for numbers is reminiscent of bad PUA style -Ferris is a friend of Neil Strauss- and not really that effective.
But the goal is just to overcome fear and not really to pick up so it doesn’t matter in that case.

• Poor Feedback Technique

Ferris shares quite a few great communication insights, including negotiation techniques. But I was really surprised when he introduce the old “sandwich feedback technique” as some great idea to deliver feedback.

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It’s not a good technique. Everyone knows it and everyone’s waiting for the negative part, completely disregarding your compliment (example below).

Read “Thanks for The Feedback” for more information.

PROS

• Autobiographical Description: Hilarious!

The autobiographical description of Tim Ferris is one of the best I’ve ever read. It’s funny, exciting and self-deprecating at the right point. Perfect.

• Lots of Power Moves

The 4 Hour Work Week has plenty of smart power moves and great social skills tips. For example, how to build authority and avoiding the “founder” title as it screams start up.

• Great Communication Tips

Similar as above, plenty of great sales and influencing techniques, both to negotiate with bosses and with providers.

Guys, I listed a lot of cons and sometimes Tim Ferris’ advice can sound “gray area”.

But don’t get it wrong: “The 4 Hour Work Week” is a masterpiece for me and I listed it in my best entrepreneurship books list.

It’s not just about the actual advice though, which by now has already aged quite a bit.
It’s the mindset behind that I vibed with (which is also similar to “The $100 Dollar Startup“).

I see quite a bit of myself in Tim Ferris. That guy is me, but just a bit brighter, smarter, much more successful, and taller. Albeit that last one is easy :).
Yeah, basically we’re not alike at all :D, but I see many similarities and he really speaks my mind when he talks about the way of life of the New Rich.

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