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The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Ferris
Creator: Ray Porter
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Category: Book
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Edition: Unabridged
Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0786170220
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9780786170227
ASIN: 0786170220
Publication Date: April 9, 2007
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Product Description
Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years--a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living. Readers can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.
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 Not the Panacea it Promises September 8, 2008
Jerry Sanchez (New York)
While I'll concede that there are some good ideas in this book, many of the ideas presented by the author are not realistic for everyone's situation. Sure, many of us would like to be young and single again, without the inflexibility that comes with certain careers or a family. But for the many of us that can't pick up and jump from country to country arbitraging currency prices to get the most bang for one's buck, this book comes across as impractical. However, there are some valuable parts of the book. Among ideas worth considering is Ferriss's strong recommendation that dreams be not put on hold as you toil day in and day out at a job that you don't love waiting for retirement. Other innovative ideas also include the suggestion to outsource daily and mundane tasks at low prices freeing up time to focus on bigger projects or how to cut down on daily emails or meetings while in the office to make your time there as productive as possible. Overall, this book is worth taking a look at, but know that you'll still have to work much more than four hours a week when finishing it.
 Waste of time - don't buy it September 6, 2008
Thomas Hubschmann
There are great books are there on self-help - this is not one of them. It is shallow and provided me with no new knowledge - in short, waste of time
 Can It Be Replicated? September 4, 2008
Marco Polo (USA)
I like the ideas in this book alot. There are lots of thoughtful suggestions especially in time management. I don't know if anyone can duplicate the author's success though as most of his accomplishments are due to his tenacious approach to living which is admirable.
 Great Read, wish this was available years ago September 3, 2008
P. Drew (Gold Coast Queensland Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love the way its written, straight to the point, no messing around.
Great information.
Ive recommended it to my friends who are stuck in 9 to 5
Pete
You're going to wonder why I gave it four stars, but here goes: September 3, 2008
Dwayne A. Thomas (New York City)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're a doctor or lawyer, forget it.
If you're a nurse or a bus driver, this isn't for you.
If you do manual labor, don't even bother picking up this book.
Manager at a retail store? HAHAHA think again.
Elected official? Well, they don't really do much work anyway, LOL
As you may have gleaned from the title (and read in the other reviews) the author advocates, what would be for most Americans, a complete and utter lifestyle change - Shrink your work hours down as far as possible and enjoy the rest of the time you have left doing other things that you like or want. As you can imagine someone whose main job is say, driving a city bus for a living, won't be able to pull this off at all unless they own their own business or quit their current job to find another one (which may be impractical.)
Next thing you need to ask yourself is if you can do your job from home or if your job offers telecommuting as an option. So if you're an accountant at a major accounting firm, you may as well stop reading here as well. If it does offer telecommuting and you can also do your work in less time at home than you would at the office, then great, you're in business.
Are you an entrepreneur or other aspiring millionaire? If you've read The Millionaire Next Door which is a study of actual millionaires, you know that the average millionaire works 40-50 hours a week over the course of 20 years to accumulate that million, which is defined as what you own subtract what you owe. So hard research lets you know that there is a small possibility that you, the entrepreneur, can pull off getting down to 4 hours a week. However, there is something to be said for being as efficient as possible in your work and cutting your hours as much as possible through whatever means are available to you.
So, how many people can actually take advantage of the information in this book and attempt to bring their hours all the way down? Sad to say that it's not too many. The reason I say this is that a great many people don't have the discipline to stick with a savings plan (putting 10% of their income aside for their retirement) and setting up your life so that you don't have to work is an extreme amount of work for the few people who can do it and be successful at it.
So, if so few people can actually use this book, why am I giving it four stars?
1: I just used 6 and only 6 vacation days to end up with 2 four day weekends followed by a five day weekend (I read this on the way home) followed by a six day weekend. This also included two 5 day trips (one to DC and one to LA, both from NYC) for which I only paid $800 in total. I'm a HUGE fan of creative vacationing, though I will admit that I contacted the Smithsonian this evening to find out if they really let people visit their islands. That's interesting.
2: I had a professor in college who had 330 days off each year. He taught ONE class twice a week and is being paid full-time for it. He does have a PhD and years of experience though. . .
3: Teachers work until 3PM and have entire summers off.
4: In Spain, siesta is two hours every day. Work still gets done.
5: France is known for taking the summer off. Work still gets done.
So, if you are among the very few people (this of course requires you to take a hard look at your situation) who have both the ability and the inclination to work less hours or you can set yourself up to do so and still like what you do for work (after all, some people just like to work) then by all means take the time out to do it and have fun. I'd just skip the actions suggested in this book that cause you to alienate yourself from other people.
If not, I think you should check out First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently and go to Assessment.com and focus on making your life and your job as fulfilling as possible.
In either case, have fun! :)
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