THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK

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

The 4-Hour Work Week

Introduction

Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Workweek, is quite surprising. He came to develop a way of thinking that allows him to identify the decisive action in every situation. This enabled him to accomplish many things. His book is a bestseller and a must read for achieving financial freedom. Its motto is “lifestyle design” that is the fact to rethink his life. He started from the widely shared, that our life made up of our work, and some leisure time with family and friends, and this are often unsatisfactory (Morgenstern, 2004, 285).

Discussion

This book is divided into four sections, each corresponding to a stage of the reduction process of working and design of the idealized lifestyle

Part 1: Discover the new rules

It is essential to define the objectives to be attained in our lives. This then allows us to derive our ideal lifestyle and determine what resources are required to do so. Tim Ferris explains that give objectives at the latest until the “right time” is what will cause our dreams to the grave.

It also explains that it is more motivating to set unattainable goals as realistic goals. Also, as everyone set achievable goals, there is more competition for them than for impossible goals. Is an unrealistic goal, he says, easier to achieve.

This section aims to provide fully the causes and ideas lead you to think differently:

Rethinking our relationship to work: alternate throughout his life work periods and mini-vacation instead of waiting all her life finally retired to rest.

The traditional view of the job is often to work and earn as much money as possible while waiting for a retreat where you can enjoy the fruits of this hard work. Week 4 Hours allow us to realize what this heresy strategy to sacrifice his best years for a hypothetical happiness 30 or 40 years later. Tim Ferris said one might very well never reach this retreat in full possession of our means and that even in the contrary case, one will surely realize that you get bored after a life spent working (Ferriss, 2009, 145 - 293).

He explains that he is no use being rich if you have no time to take this money and it is better to try to work as little as possible while making the minimum necessary to accomplish what we dream of doing. This does not mean that we should do nothing at all other times; however, we can take the opportunity to go for mini-vacations and realize some of our dreams (Morgenstern, 2004, 285).

Rethinking our relationship with money: To be rich financially and be able to live like a millionaire are two fundamentally different things.

There are different types of wealth: mobility, time and money.

According to Tim Ferris, our relative income (per hour) is more important than our absolute income (total). The New Happy (or nouveau riche) in the English version, not distinguished by their monetary wealth but ...