Must read book

The 4-Hour Workweek gives practical tips on escaping the boring 9–5 grind and building a smarter, freer lifestyle. Simple ideas, real examples, and strategies you can actually use. Some parts feel a bit idealistic, but the overall message is powerful and motivating.

If you’ve ever dreamt of working less and living more—this book is a must-read.

What the book is about: - Book dispels the notion of waiting till retirement. It is aimed at creating mini retirements by using the method DEAL i.e. Define, Elimination, Automation and Liberation for entrepreneurs and DELA for employees. Book puts emphasis on being an owner of business rather than being a boss. It guides through the process of managing businesses in a completely different way by using the DEAL Method. It challenges the normal thinking about retirement, timing of actions and Money as solution of everything.

It supports the complete process of joining the new rich club by following four steps

1. Define :- It defines what is your worst case scenario of leaving the job. What are the alternatives you have to overcome the situation? It puts focus on creating your short timelines what you want to be or do in near future. The template for creation of timelines also provided which shows the amount required for each timeline is not that much as we think.

2. Eliminate: - In this step, author puts focus of elimination of all non-productive things around you using 80/20 principle. It says that our 80% happiness comes from 20% of our output and vice versa. The quote at the beginning of the chapter by Bruce Lee sums the chapter “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

3. Automate: - In this author explains the importance of outsourcing life from personal to business which saves lots of time. Author explained the process of automation of business as it grows over a period of time.

4. Liberation:- The last step of the process is liberation in which author discussed ways to be free from job or from business.

Learning’s :- Some of the key learning from the books

a) Batch processing of identical jobs to save time and energy.

b) Checking emails only twice a day.

c) Create small timelines of things you want to do and achieve.

d) Checklist of 09 Not to do things in life

Overall review: - It is an unusual book which gives you wings to break the shackles of daily 09 to 05 job and aims at achieving freedom with financial gains. It aims at spending quality life with your loved ones and hobbies which you enjoy. Overall it is very good read which gives us insight about what is our aim life.

Tim Ferriss's "The 4-Hour Workweek" is a revolutionary blueprint for escaping the 9-to-5 grind. It masterfully teaches lifestyle design through automating income and leveraging time for maximum freedom. This thought-provoking guide challenges traditional notions of work, offering actionable steps to live more and work less effectively.

It's a good book but mainly from an American perspective. Not universal. For Indians won't be able to attach With it unless staying in Europe or USA!

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I agree with Michael E Gerber's statement “The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work? A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it!”

Initially I was not impressed with this book from Tim Ferriss. It appeared more like the usual GYAN stuff. Book came to me as a gift from my friend and I started reading it. First few pages looked un-practical. However I must admit as I went on ... it was a perfect story telling and I read the whole book like a marathon. It is a great book for all and specifically those who want to do something different from the monotonous world of 9 to 5.

I liked everything but specifically two chapters (1) Outsourced Life (2) How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less

At the same time I felt some of the thoughts expressed in the book are not for me like not reading a news paper or "not watching television" in the chapter "The Low-Information Diet".

Liked and quoting a paragraph citing credible India from the chapter - OUTSOURCED LIFE : "The next day I e-mail Brickwork, one of the companies Friedman mentions in his book. Brickwork—based in Bangalore, India—offers “remote executive assistants,” mostly to financial firms and healthcare companies that want data processed. I explain that I’d like to hire someone to help with Esquire-related tasks—doing research, formatting memos, like that. The company’s CEO, Vivek Kulkarni, responds, “It would be a great pleasure to be talking to a person of your stature.” Already I’m liking this. I’ve never had stature before. In America, I barely command respect from a Bennigan’s maître d’, so it’s nice to know that in India I have stature."

I bought two books and gifted to two of my friends.

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

The title of this book was the first thing to grab my attention and it was recommended read on a podcast I was listening to. I'll be honest, Ferris' journey was extreme and I'm sure it is mush easier to take the steps he did when you have a few million dollars in your bank account as he did. That said, he does raise some really thought provoking questions of priorities and self-imposed limitations, it really did stop to make me think why, when I actually have the means, was I not doing at least some of the things I thought that I would do if I won the lottery? A thought that led to me booking a fabulous exotic holiday, moving house and starting yoga. There are plenty of examples in the book of people who were not millionaires who have managed to make this happen in their own lives.

His thoughts and advice on automation of work and outsourcing are a useful tool for anyone looking to relieve workplace stress. The idea of asking for reduced hours or flexible working might seem really scary but, I suppose, if you don't ask you don't get. If you're still not sure on this principle I would recommend reading The Aladdin Factor as that covers this area in much more depth.

I personally think everyone should read this book at least once a year, just to remind themselves not to get stuck in the humdrum of mundane living and it's a must read for anyone looking to work for themselves or retiring soon. I bought my parents a copy in the hope that it would entice them to spend their retirement doing fun, exhilarating things that they've always put off before... the idea of tango lessons in Argentina was definitely appealing to them.

Would really recommend this book, one of those you can read multiple times over your life

Good book

J'ai hésité longtemps avant de lire ce livre, pensant qu'il n'allait pas m'aider à me motiver au travail. Et bien, au contraire, voici un ouvrage qui m'a redonné l'envie de prendre en main ma vie professionnelle. L'anglais est très facile à lire, avec quelques termes techniques bien évidemment mais se lit essentiellement comme une lettre de conseil à un ami de l'auteur (pas un ouvrage théorique). La version française est certainement très bien aussi. Du coup je l'ai dévoré contrairement aux livres d'organisation personnelle que j'ai pu lire avant. Et si, comme beaucoup d'entre nous, nous ne nous destinons pas à appliquer les méthodes et astuces à 100%, ce livre reste parfaitement utile. Rien que les clefs de réflexion sur la façon d'envisager son rapport au travail valent largement le prix et le temps passé à lire The 4 hour workweek. J'ai personnellement mis en place un certain nombres de conseils avec succès pour me dégager du temps et surtout de la disponibilité d'esprit au quotidien, par exemple en ne regardant mes mails qu'une fois par jour maximum et en limitant strictement la quantité d'informations auxquelles je m'expose.

Un livre chaudement recommandé pour tous.

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