Summary: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris - More knowledge in less time

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Tim Ferriss is the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, a New York Times bestseller that incorporates the Pareto Principle and Parkinson’s Law into a lifestyle of reduced working hours and more personal free time.After graduating from Princeton University, where he earned a degree in East Asian Studies, Tim started his first business selling nutritional supplements at the age 23. Since selling his business, he has become a Guinness Book Of World Records holder in tango and a host of his own program on the History Channel. Currently working as an angel investor, in 2011 Tim announced he would publish a third book, The 4-Hour Chef. The book is being released by Amazon.com and is expected to become available for purchase in April 2012.The 4-Hour Workweek is Tim Ferriss’ first book. Detailing his personal experiences of success and failures in ‘lifestyle design,’ the book provides readers with a clear road map on how to outsource mundane work, reduce clutter and information overload to create smooth income streams and more free time.The author believes that pursuing dreams and goals now is more important than deferring them until after retirement, and his book promotes a variety of lifestyle design options that give readers exciting alternatives to the ordinary 9-5 routine.

Genres: Self Help

18 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2017

Reviews

[Eliza Marin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A compact, how-to summary of 80/20 principle or work more efficiently. Tim Ferris is renown for hacking the brain, the body and basically how we wire ourselves or others do to us. He seeks in this book, much like others, to unlearn the bad habit that associates long work with productivity. It demystifies the idea of working for meaning, sprung in the industrial era. Instead, he proposes working for sustaining oneself and hence, leaving the rest of the time for a more leisured experience of life. It is not just a petty self-help book, it has a pertinent review of the historical use of work-time efficiency, studies until date, personal advice and experiments, all with an authentic voice that reaches miles when you just want to come out of the depression of working all your life with no significant outcome. I, personally loved that he paralleled the long working days with a form of laziness, without giving it a second thought. He derives this thinking from the idea that in order to have a tangible sense of accomplishment at work, one needs to follow what comes natural and easy. Much like Seth Godin, Ferris encourages failures, quitting unnecessary dramas. I kindly recommend it.

[Jose Salazar · Rating 5 out of 5]

To the point, and hits all the major ideas

Very brief, and captures the ideas of the book.
I read the book, and like most books there are natural portions of redundancy. These summaries are very effective.

[Jason · Rating 1 out of 5]

Only summary of 1st 4 chapters

Got as a reference after buying audiobook. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of a great book. Don’t bother. Just buy the book with all 26 chapters.

[Nardia Mendez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good read in a short time

The book is straight to the point and gives seemingly good advice on how to shake up the mundane of life. Very good and easy read