4 - Hour Workweek (Summary)

4 - Hour Workweek - by Tim Ferriss

The books Talks About a 4-Step Process to free yourself from work and still earn money.

D: Definition - Define your objectives. Decide what’s important. Set goals. Ask yourself, “What do I really want?”

E: Eliminate - Eliminate distractions to free up time. Learn to be effective, not efficient. Focus on the 20% of the stuff that’s important and ignore the 80% that isn’t. Put yourself on a low-information diet. Learn to shunt aside interruptions, and learn to say “no”.

A: Automation - Automate your cash flow to increase income. Outsource your life — hire a virtual assistant to handle menial tasks. Develop a business that can run on auto-pilot. (This is the weakest section of the book.)

L: Liberation - Liberate yourself from traditional expectations. Design your job to increase mobility. This could mean working from home, or it could mean using geographic arbitrage to take mini-retirements in countries with favorable exchange rates.

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Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, author, and podcaster.

Step I: D is for Definition

Chapter 1 - Cautions and Comparisons: How to Burn $1,000,000 a Night

Chapter 2 - Rules That Change the Rules: Everything Popular is Wrong

Chapter 3 - Dodging Bullets: Fear-setting and Escaping Paralysis

Chapter 4 - System Reset: Being Unreasonable and Unambiguous

Step II: E is for Elimination

Chapter 5 - The End of Time Management: Illusions and Italians

Chapter 6 - The Low-Information Diet: Cultivating Selective Ignorance

Chapter 7 - Interrupting Interruption and the Art of Refusal

Step III: A is for Automation

Chapter 8 - Outsourcing Life: Offloading the Rest and a Taste of Geoarbitrage

Chapter 9 - Income Autopilot I: Finding the Muse

Chapter 10 - Income Autopilot II: Testing the Muse

Chapter 11 - Income Autopilot III: MBA-Management By Absence

Step IV: L is for Liberation

Chapter 12 - Disappearing Act: How to Escape the Office

Chapter 13 - Beyond Repair: Killing Your Job

Chapter 14 - Mini-Retirements: Embracing the Mobile Lifestyle

Chapter 15 - Filling the Void: Adding Life After Subtracting Work

Chapter 16 - The Top 13 New Rich Mistakes

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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Quality of work life.

Part-time self-employment.

Self-realization.

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Quality of life.