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The 4-Hour Work Week

Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

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The 4-Hour Work Week

By: Timothy Ferriss
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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Ready to escape the 9-5 and find a new way of living? Learn how to live more and work less with the revolutionary book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tools of Titans.

Forget the old concept of retirement and the deferred-life plan, there is no need to wait, especially in unpredictable economic times.

Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, building passive income, travelling the world or creating a remote-working lifestyle, this book will show you how.

In The 4-Hour Workweek, entrepreneur and bestselling author Tim Ferriss shares the practical steps he used to go from earning $40,000 a year and working 80 hours a week to earning $40,000 per MONTH while working just 4 hours a week.

This step-by-step guide to financial freedom reveals how to:

  • Outsource tasks and automate your workload
  • Eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours
  • Build more freedom, flexibility and work-life balance
  • Trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent ‘mini-retirements’


This updated edition also includes:

  • Practical tips and case studies from readers who doubled their income and reinvented their lives
  • Real-world templates for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients
  • Lifestyle design strategies for thriving in uncertain economic times
  • The latest tools, productivity hacks and high-tech shortcuts for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either


If you want more freedom, flexibility and control over your time, this is the blueprint.

‘This book will change your life!’ Phil Town, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rule #1

‘The self-help hit of the decade’ Men’s Journal

Please Note: The audio references accompanying material that is not included with this audiobook.

© Tim Ferriss 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2011

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It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge
The book that has caught the imagination of overworked America
This is a whole new ball game. Highly recommended. (Dr. Stewart D. Friedman, Adviser to Jack Welch and Former Vice President Al Gore on Work/Family Issues, Director of the Work/Life Integration Project, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life,
it's all here. Whether you're a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this
book will change your life!

(Phil Town, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of "Rule #1)
The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work? A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it! (Michael E. Gerber, Founder & Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide and the World's #1 Small Business Guru)
Timothy has packed more lives into his 29 years than Steve Jobs has in his 51. (Tom Foremski, Journalist and Publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com)

Thanks to Tim Ferriss, I have more time in my life to travel, spend time with family and write book blurbs. This is a dazzling and highly useful
work.

(A.J. Jacobs, Editor-at-Large, Esquire Magazine, Author of "The Know-It-All)
If you want to live life on your own terms, this is your blueprint. (Mike Maples, Co-founder of Motive Communications (IPO to $260M market cap), Founding Executive of Tivoli (sold to IBM for $750M))
Tim is Indiana Jones for the digital age. I've already used his advice to go spearfishing on remote islands and ski the best hidden slopes of Argentina. Simply put, do what he says and you can live like a millionaire. (Albert Pope, Derivatives Trading, UBS World Headquarters)
This engaging book makes you ask the most important question that you will ever face: What exactly is it that you want out of work and life, and why? Tim Ferriss is a master of getting more for less, often with the help of people he doesn't even know, and here he gives away his secrets for fulfilling your dreams. (Bo Burlingham, Editor-at-Large, "Inc." magazine, Author of "Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big")
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I like audiobooks that are narrated by the author. They are read in the same energy as how they were wrote; you begin to understand and keep track of the text when you feel someone is genuine about reading it to you. I'll still listen to it but I feel it'd have been more engaging if it was read by the source. But I guess that's what the 4 hour work week is all about :)

Good book but I wish Tim Ferriss was reading it

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A lot of links to website that are not up to date today, pretty much time consuming and worthless. A few interesting concepts but not as helpful as the author pretends them to be. Instead of useful advices (there are a few but this is it) the author speaks on how good he is, does not really help on how to be more productive.

Basic concepts of time management and how to delegate

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Would you try another book written by Timothy Ferriss or narrated by Ray Porter?

I possibly would but the links to external websites for tools and tips make it pretty awful for audible. I had to keep forwarding through it

What could Timothy Ferriss have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Leave out the above for the audio version

Would you be willing to try another one of Ray Porter’s performances?

Wasn't bad. You can tell when he reading through line after line of URL's that he is bored

Could you see The 4-Hour Work Week being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

No

A touch too Americanised

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Wish I had read this book much sooner than I did, a real game changer.

Enlightening

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Life Changing talk right there. Buying the physical book this month too as there are very useful bits of info in here. Definitely recommend to those feeling ready to take time & money into their own hands.

Life Changing

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