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

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Crown Publishers, 2007 - 308 páginas
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:
"I race motorcycles in Europe."
"I ski in the Andes."
"I scuba dive in Panama."
"I dance tango in Buenos Aires."
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the "deferred-life plan" and instead mastered the new currencies--time and mobility--to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.
Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
- 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 freuent "mini-retirements"
- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair
- What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
- How to cultivate selective ignorance--and create time--with a low-information diet
- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off
- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office
You can have it all--really.
 

Conteúdo

FAQ Doubters Read This 35
3
Chronology of a Pathology
13
D is for Definition
19
Everything Popular Is Wrong
29
FearSetting and Escaping Paralysis
38
Being Unreasonable and Unambiguous
48
E is for Elimination
63
Cultivating Selective Ignorance
82
Testing the Muse
166
MBAManagement by Absence
182
How to Escape the Office
207
Killing Your Job
220
Embracing the Mobile Lifestyle
230
Adding Life After Subtracting Work
264
The Top 13 New Rich Mistakes
279
RESTRICTED READING
287

Interrupting Interruption and the Art of Refusal
90
A is for Automation
111
Finding the Muse
139
BONUS CHAPTERS
293
INDEX
299
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Timothy Ferriss is an American author and public speaker. In 2007, he published The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, which was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller. Ferriss grew up in East Hampton, NY and graduated from St. Paul's School. He received a degree in Neuroscience and East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Before the release of the 4HWW, Ferriss was an unknown. He marketed the book heavily through bloggers with whom he created personal relationships. He has since been praised for this technique. He has also taken the position that technology such as email, instant messaging and internet-enabled PDAs complicate life rather than simplify it. His teachings fit under the umbrella of what he calls "Lifestyle Design," which he positions as an alternative to the "deferred-life" career path where one would work a 9 to 5 job until retirement in their 60s.

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