Have you read The 4 Hour Work Week?

[wanzulfikri]

How is it? Does it changed the way you live?

[Angela]

I have; there are some helpful tidbits in there; no, it hasn't changed the way I live or had a significant impact on my life. But it's a fun read -- I like his chutzpah!

[Alymdrictels]

Originally Posted by Angela

no, it hasn't changed the way I live or had a significant impact on my life. But it's a fun read -- I like his chutzpah!

Quoted for 99% of self-help books.

[Andrew Gubb]

In the end I got one or two things out of it. I like the sense of anything is possible you get from his book. That said I think there are better ways for going about getting free. I don't want to resell pills I don't believe in at inflated prices for a living. And I don't particularly mind working more than 4 hours per week, so long as I am doing what I want to do. Perhaps that means automated income, perhaps not. I'm working it out as I go along.

[Agota]

I liked the overall mindset of Tim Ferris, although, same as Andrew, I don't want to run a business I don't believe in and I want to work more than 4 hours a week as long as I'm doing what I really like.

I think the main influence was the idea of having location independent income and living in different countries. I think up until I read that I never considered an idea of changing countries like that. Now it's part of my dream life vision, hopefully coming true soon

[VinceG]

The Four-Hour Workweek changed my life. It forced me to think of my future in the short term rather than the long long term, and gave me ideas on how to handle situations that are common, but aren't typically discussed anywhere else, such as analysis paralysis, clients that are net drains on your bottom line, and jobs which aren't flexible enough to work with you.

Actually putting the methods into play to take back my time and energy forced me to confront a lot of aspects about myself that I wouldn't have otherwise.

Tim's methods often seem 'impossible', it doesn't seem like, right away, that it would be easy to find a job that would let you take a month off and wait around for you. But once you take the whole picture in, the realization comes in that it's not so much about the end result but about the process of taking your time and energy and effort back from a world which has ordered itself around exploiting you.

It will never be easy to hack out a 4 hour work week from the world. That doesn't mean it's impossible or that Tim's just a shyster. It just means you need a higher level of consciousness than you were used to operating at. You need to watch more things than you were used to. You need to make harder decisions, and stick to them harder too.

[wanzulfikri]

Well, I have read some parts and I like the idea of prioritizing and also being selective with what we read. The Pareto principle and Parkinson's law are good indeed since I found the principle in the lazy Millionaire book as well.

[tevag]

Hi there,

The 4-Hour Work Week changed my life too. I lived and worked in Paris. After reading this book I decided to travel around the world for six months. My travel finished at the end of September 2011 and I decided to quit my job and go back to my home country, Greece. It is a very risky decision especially because as everybody knows, Greece is in the middle of the worst financial crisis in his history. That is the reason why I created my blog.
Before buying this book, I suggest you to have a look in the summary of the book. It happens to me to have read and posted this summary in my blog. So feel free to read it.

Thank you because with your question you gave me the opportunity to express myself.

[Agota]

I'll be probably firing a client soon who is just a waste of time (asides stealing the script idea I've presented to him and then having other freelancer write that script). I've learned that you can actually dump the clients from Tim!

[learnalifetime]

I've heard a lot about this guy. My goal is to travel more, and I want to continue working and earning money while I travel. I'll put this book on my to-read list

About self-help books in general... I think they all have some value, but I think it's all about the moment an idea really hits you. When you really get it...

It's possible that have such a moment when reading a not-so-great book, and than you think it's a great book because it changed your live... but instead it was the whole process (multiple books, articles, years of thinking etc) that changed you.