Review of “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferris

Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

This is the book that inspired me to become a blogger and to start writing. In his book Tim writes about casting off the idea of working from 9-5 by learning to “outsource your life”. He also writes stories of traveling across the globe while collecting an automated income.

“The world is changing and our outlook needs to change with it, because old models don’t cut it anymore. This book will cause you to question everything — read it!”

Excerpt from the 4HWW Book

“I’m a drug dealer.”

Pretty much a conversation ender. It’s only half true, besides. The whole truth would take too long. How can I possibly explain that what I do with my time and what I do for money are completely different things? That I work less than four hours per week and make more per month than I used to make in a year?

For the first time, I’m going to tell you the real story. It involves a quiet subculture of people called the “New Rich.”

What does an igloo-dwelling millionaire do that a cubicle-dweller doesn’t? Follow an uncommon set of rules.

How does a lifelong blue-chip employee escape to travel the world for a month without his boss even noticing? He uses technology to hide the fact.

Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).

I’ve spent the last three years traveling among those who live in worlds currently beyond your imagination. Rather than hating reality, I’ll show you how to bend it to your will. It’s easier than it sounds. My journey from grossly overworked and severely underpaid office worker to member of the NR is at once stranger than fiction and — now that I’ve deciphered the code — simple to duplicate. There is a recipe.

My favorite part of The Four Hour Work Week is the chapter where he talks about hiring an Indian women to outsource ALL of his day to day activity for between $4-$10 dollars an hour. He even has his new found employee handle talking to his girlfriend.

The DEAL of deal making is also an acronym for the process of becoming a member of the New Rich.

D for Definition
E for Elimination
A for Automation
L for Liberation

I strongly recommend reading this book if you are anyone who has worked a 9-5 job before and is interested in living a more liberated lifestyle. Tim Ferris is a very well known person. In fact just one comment on the Tim Ferris Blog sends loads of traffic to my page for several weeks.

If you are interested pickup your copy here

If you’d rather listen to Tim Ferris on the go you can also get The 4-Hour Workweek Audiobook