{"id":441333,"date":"2010-03-18T01:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2010-03-18T01:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:52:33","slug":"four-hour-work-week-by-tim-ferriss-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/441333","title":{"rendered":"Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Ferriss&#8217; Book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307465357?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0307465357\">4-Hour Workweek<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0307465357\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> has been around for some 2-3 years now&#8230; and yet, while it&#8217;s right in the Lazy Man wheelhouse, I hadn&#8217;t read it until recently.  Why didn&#8217;t I read it?  Here are the two biggest excuses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>I Hate Books<\/b> &#8211; I&#8217;d like to blame Ethan Frome for my hated of books, but the truth is that it probably started long before that.  I have a pretty short attention span the  Internet and blogs especially play to that.  In fact, if you&#8217;d ask me what books are worth reading off the top of my head I&#8217;d go with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1439167346?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1439167346\">How To Win Friends and Influence People<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1439167346\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000HT2OXA?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000HT2OXA\">Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000HT2OXA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (please spend the $5.42 that Amazon is charging for this book &#8211; seriously!  The title is outrageous, but it&#8217;s a really good book), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26tag%3Dmozilla-20%26index%3Dblended%26link_code%3Dqs%26field-keywords%3Dmalcolm%2520gladwell%26sourceid%3DMozilla-search&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">Everything by Malcolm Gladwell<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316769177?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0316769177\">The Catcher in the Rye<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316769177\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743273567?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0743273567\">The Great Gatsby<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0743273567\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  This book joins that elite list.<\/li>\n<li><b>I Cross the Frugal Line to Cheap Sometimes<\/b> &#8211; I was waiting on this book through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackswap.com\">Paperback Swap<\/a> since it came out.  When a book is really good and is worth re-reading multiple times, people don&#8217;t want to give it up.  Finally, when I got close to the top of the list, my wife decided to just pay the $15 (or whatever it was) and get it for me for Christmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having finished the book, one of the things I can say is &#8220;wow.&#8221;  It&#8217;s where I was trying to take this website when I set out.  The reason I created this website is that I realized that my girlfriend (and now my wife) was going to retire at age 44 due to 20 years of service with the military.  At that time, she&#8217;d might want to enjoy life in way that a regular 9-5 worker couldn&#8217;t.  So I created this website to explore ideas on how to avoid the working the next 35 years.  At the time, I had no idea that this website wasn&#8217;t just the question on how to do that, but it may also evolve into the answer.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine Tim Ferriss and his 4-hour Work Week strives to get to the same place&#8230; earn a very good income with limited &#8220;work&#8221;, thus giving you the freedom to do the things you want to do.  I found myself agreeing with Tim Ferriss on almost everything he said, except that he used the word &#8220;lazy&#8221; in a negative context almost every time.  I like to think that he&#8217;d choose a different word if he was a software engineer (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazy_evaluation\">see lazy evaluation<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>His book and this blog cover a number of similar things.  (Before I get started on them I think this blog was started well before his book was published, but some of his ideas were published before this blog.)  Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Pareto Principle (80\/20 rule)<\/b> &#8211; See my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/about\/\">About Page<\/a>.  It&#8217;s the first item I listed.<\/li>\n<li><b>Parkinson&#8217;s Law<\/b> &#8211; While I mention time (as Mr. Ferriss does), and space, I also applied this to dealing with money &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/parkinsons-law\/\">Are Your Resources Swallowed Up By Parkinson\u2019s Law?<\/a>.  You  might have heard of it under the term &#8220;lifestyle inflation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>Wasting Time Trying to be Too Perfect<\/b> &#8211; I covered that here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/the-enemy-of-good-in-entrepreneurism\/\">The Enemy of Good in Entrepreneurism<\/a>.  In reality it&#8217;s the other 20\/80 not covered in the Pareto Principle.<\/li>\n<li><b>Speed Reading<\/b> &#8211; The book gave some tips to read quickly (a great set of tips in about a single page).  I need to re-read those tips and practice them as I named reading slow one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/three-reasons-i-will-never-be-rich\/\">Three Reasons I Will Never Be Rich<\/a>.  I mentioned how slow I read again in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/my-2008-goals\/\">my 2008 goals<\/a>.  I also put it on my short list of tips on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/how-to-be-successful-in-the-new-year\/\">How To Be Successful<\/a>.  <\/li>\n<li><b>Hiring a Virtual Assistant<\/b> &#8211; I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/how-to-find-a-virtual-assistant\/\">How to Find a Virtual Assistant<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/why-hire-a-virtual-assistant\/\">Why Hire a Virtual Assistant <\/a>, previously.  Tim Ferriss spends a chapter or two going in great detail.<\/li>\n<li><b>How To Negotiate<\/b> &#8211; Okay, I failed here, I have about 600 bookmarked websites on how to negotiate and from what I can tell I haven&#8217;t written about it.  I think it&#8217;s because that&#8217;s always been on my wish list to learn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you may be asking right now, &#8220;Why do I need to get 4-hour Work Week when I can read this blog?&#8221;  The short answer is that Tim distills all that information (and much, much more) into a book that most people can read in a couple of days.  I really can&#8217;t do the book justice in just a few hundred words &#8211; .  This blog rambles a lot about things you might not care about (i.e. my life).  Though you may like this blog a bit more because it follows a person&#8217;s journey to implement the ideas in the book (even if I didn&#8217;t know the ideas were in the book).<\/p>\n<p>Again, I recommend very, very few books, so if you have been on the fence on whether you should buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307465357?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lazymanandmon-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0307465357\">4-Hour Workweek<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lazymanandmon-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0307465357\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  I say, &#8220;do it!&#8221;  I wish I had done so a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/nobody-wants-a-million-dollars-reviewed\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Nobody Wants a Million Dollars Reviewed'>Nobody Wants a Million Dollars Reviewed<\/a> <small>Last week when I reviewed Four Hour Work Week by&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/secrets-of-a-stingy-scoundrel-reviewed\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Secrets of a  Stingy Scoundrel Reviewed'>Secrets of a  Stingy Scoundrel Reviewed<\/a> <small>I really need to do one of two things: A)&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/outliers-review-malcolm-gladwell\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Reviewed'>Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Reviewed<\/a> <small>I don&#8217;t read many books. In fact, I only read&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/utah-state-employees-getting-a-four-day-work-week\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Utah State Employees Getting a Four Day Work-Week'>Utah State Employees Getting a Four Day Work-Week<\/a> <small>The state of Utah recently decided that it could save&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/matt-furey-101-ways-to-magnetize-money\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Matt Furey: 101 Ways To Magnetize Money'>Matt Furey: 101 Ways To Magnetize Money<\/a> <small>Publishers send me books all the time. 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