Four Hour Work Week
After following Tim Ferris blog in two years time, I ended up buying his book The Four Hour Workweek. " On the way, I was also a "victim" for his well-oiled machine, but it does not matter, it is an excellent book, where I ran a single chapter over and maybe think the first was the most interesting.
Actually, I had misunderstood the book's content until I briefly mentioned it to my good friend Andreas . I thought it was about that if I beside my work spent four hours a week on something I like, I would also be successful with it. And from the time I started to follow Tim Ferris blog, it was something I started to practice. Partly in relation to this blog's shift from content back in May 2008. More significantly in relation to other things that are extraneous blog here.
The subtitle is "Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich." It's not about to spend four hours at the side of his work. I had seen it wrong. For it is about to spend four hours a week at work. Throughout the book says Tim Ferris on how to free up its resources. He has a personal assistant in India. He gets up very quickly indeed two. He talks about his many failures and successes, and even though he is American in its tone sales, so I do not think the book is overly lengthy as some of his American non-fiction colleagues in the habit.
The book is useful. The message comes from within, pulling things down to earth and makes it possible.
It starts with defining some problems. Introduces how he uses the 80/20 rule. The fact that he earns 80% at the 20% best customers. The remaining 20% are those who give him the most problems in the work.
He defines some barriers most (?) Walk around with and then he breaks them down. Among other things, he uses terms like "not to overestimate his opponent or underestimate themselves." Which works really well if you need to meet a big shot in a company.
And then he puts on the whole a lot of questions that the reader must consider in order to maintain its self-understanding.
It is the entrepreneur (contractor) he is talking to. And there are several things that do not interest me very much to pursue. That is simply not my style to "ask forgiveness rather than ask for permission." The desire for constant traveling and experiencing the world is not my driving force. Tim is good enough here and say it just comes to define its goals and pursue it, not to wait until they retire to do what you want.
But after reading the book I am probably better equipped to pursue the idea to spend four hours a week (something else) I think about.
