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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The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

Am I being productive or just active?

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

Stop asking for opinions and start proposing solutions.

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

experiment exposed their incorrectness. … Thus the yeoman

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

experiment exposed their incorrectness. … Thus the yeoman

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

The 4-Hour Workweek , Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)

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

published: 2019-08-01
last modified: 2023-07-29

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