The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss

Summary: Stop working and fully enjoy your life! Easy, isn’t it?

Score: 75 / 100

There is a lot of good points, but first, I think it is hard to implement for most of the world, second, I am afraid that this approach is not sustainable for the whole world.

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our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

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“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

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a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists

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‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’

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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. —WILLIAM OF OCCAM (1300–1350),

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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

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Am I being productive or just active?

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Stop asking for opinions and start proposing solutions.

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experiment exposed their incorrectness. … Thus the yeoman

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experiment exposed their incorrectness. … Thus the yeoman

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30–40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

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JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn’t make it productive or worthwhile.

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losing or dropping a job will often be little more than a few weeks of vacation (unless you

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losing or dropping a job will often be little more than a few weeks of vacation (unless you want more) prior to something better.