Imagine being in an exam and seeing that the person in front of you has all the answers on a sheet of paper.
That actually happened to me when I was doing my marketing diploma. I got up and moved seats so that I could write the exams and get the results that I prepared for. Because looking at the answers would be cheating.
But when you enter the real world, getting the answers is collaboration.
This book challenges every part of my thinking.
Part of my brain was screaming out, "No, that is not the way you do it."
In some parts, my mouth literally hung open.
In other parts, I just had to call my husband and read it to him.
There is this one part where the author wins a gold medal at the Chinese Kickboxing National Championships after only 4 weeks of training. He did it by finding two loopholes that helped him to win through technicalities. I bet anyone who trained really hard for a sport is going to hate this part of the book.
This book challenges your thinking about rules, about retirement, about everything.
I love his thoughts about retirement.
Q: Seriously, if you loved what you were doing in the most physically productive years of your life, would you actually want to retire?
Q: Does the money you have set aside for retirement actually going to give you the same lifestyle as you currently have?
Ask most financial consultants and they will tell you that your lifestyle would have to be cut by about 30%. Do we really want a worse quality of life when we retire?
And if you actually are well off enough not to have to cut back, you probably are a seriously ambitious person, who would want to start a new project anyway to prevent yourself from dying of boredom.
I have to admit that I am not yet finished. But this is one book that I want to finish.
This book will shock you, it will make you laugh out loud. It is a super crazy book that makes you rethink everything that you know.
I almost want to find a memory stick that can just download the contents of the book into my mind. This is one book that I will definitely be reading more than one time.
I can't wait to finish.
The Official Write up about this book is:
The New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Body shows readers how to live more and work less, now with more than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.
This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:
• How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”
The new expanded edition of Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:
• More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
• Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal
• How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times
• The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either
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