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

Timothy Ferriss

Aug 2011 · Random House

About this ebook

A new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it's not all about work

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, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:

* How Tim went from $40,000 dollars 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'.

This new updated and expanded edition includes:

More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
* Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating email, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than £5 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.

Ratings and reviews

The book is awesome, don't get me wrong there's a few bits I skipped over that were of no genuine interest to me or completely off scale for my profession. But, certain sections of this book taught me about life, how time is more valuable than money, and happiness is more valuable than both!

Yeh. It's ok. Some good new info for me but I don't buy it all. I didn't keep my copy - it's not an eternally relevant book. One thing I really liked was that all the references and bibliography are available online instead of wasting trees. Great and innovative idea.

First I want to thank Tim Ferriss for putting together all these informations.You opened my eyes for new adventures.Thank you

About the author

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and as a Forbes ”Names You Need to Know,” and is the seventh ”most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index. He is an early-stage tech investor and advisor, working with Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, and over fifty other organizations, and the author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek,The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. His podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, was one of iTunes’s “Best of 2015,” typically among the top 30 out of more than 300,000 podcasts. Tim has been called “the Oprah of audio” due to the sales impact of the podcast, and past guests include Jamie Foxx, General Stanley McChrystal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Norton, and more than a hundred others.