4 hour work week book review năm 2024

In a frenetic, overscheduled world, the fastest path to success is promising the masses a way out. It worked for Tim Ferriss, whose book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich became a worldwide blockbuster, and it’s a winning formula for a bevy of globe-trotting pundits who muse about visiting Benedictine monasteries and rocket to the top of The New York Times’ “most emailed” list with essays on “The Joy of Quiet.” I’ve even tapped into the escapist mania myself, with a popular HBR piece last winter called “How to Take a Month Off.”

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“The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss is a famous book that is recommended by lots of people. I was very inspired by some of its ideas and stories. Following are the 10 lessons I learnt from this book:

Book info:

ISBN: 9780307353139 Date read: 2021–02–22 How strongly I recommend it: 8/10

1. Less Is Not Laziness.

• Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive.
• By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable.
• Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.
• Focus on being productive instead of busy.
• If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.
• It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
• Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
• Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
• Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective — doing less — is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

2. Work smart:

• To prevent work for work’s sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect (“minimum effective load”).
• Replace the habit of “How are you?” with “How can I help you?”.
• Learn to Propose. Offer a solution. Stop the back-and-forth and make a decision. e.g. “can I make a suggestion?” “ I suggest that … What do you think?” Let’s try … and then try something else if that doesn’t work.”
• Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission.
• Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
• Finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
• Grads from top schools are funnelled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.
• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
• Never check e-mail first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse.
• E-mail communication should be streamlined to prevent needless back-and-forth. The “if … then” structure becomes more important as you check e-mail less often. Can you meet at 4:00 P.M.? If so If not, please advise three other times that work for you.

3. Fear and uncomfortable:

• Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.
• It is the fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to do.
• Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.
• Define the worst case, accept it, and do it.
• A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
• When everything and everyone is failing, what is the cost of a little experimentation outside of the norm? Most often, nothing.
• What’s the worst that could happen? Hope for the best and planned for the worst.
• The Timing Is Never Right. For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
• There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

4. Life:

• Life exists to be enjoyed and that the most important thing is to feel good about yourself. What can I do with my time to enjoy life and feel good about myself?
• What we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.
• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something … almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. — STEVE JOBS
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
• If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
• Be strict with yourself. I can prescribe medicine, but you need to take it.
• Emphasize Strengths, Don’t Fix Weaknesses.
• Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the “freedom multiplier.”
• Relative Income Is More Important Than Absolute Income. Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time.

5. Start your own business:

• Finding a market before designing a product is smarter than the reverse.
• To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.
• Start Small, Think Big.
• It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.
• Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
• Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is much easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market — define your customers — then find or develop a product for them.
• Be a member of your target market and don’t speculate what others need or will be willing to buy.
• The main benefit of your product should be explainable in one sentence or phrase. How is it different and why should I buy it?

6. Work on the most important things:

• The most important actions are never comfortable.
• Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?” Don’t ever arrive at the office or in front of your computer without a clear list of priorities.
• There should never be more than two mission-critical items to complete each day.
• If you haven’t already accomplished at least one important task in the day, don’t spend the last business hour returning a DVD to avoid a $5 late charge. Get the important task done and pay the $5 fine.
• Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).
• Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
• At least three times per day at scheduled times, Am I being productive or just active? Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?
• The key to having more time is doing less, and both of which should be used together: (1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.
• Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
• What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
• Efficiency is still important, but it is useless unless applied to the right things.

7. Doing what excites you:

• What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No. Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so are happiness and sadness. The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is — here’s the clincher — boredom. Throughout life on a regular basis and recognize that inactivity is not the goal. Doing that which excites you is.
• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. “What would excite you?”.
• Create two timelines — 6 months and 12 months — and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.
• If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.

8. Failures:

• If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
• An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
• Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.
• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
• You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

9. The Expert Builder: How to Become a Top Expert

• Give one free one-to-three-hour seminar at the closest well-known.
• Join two or three related trade organizations.
• Read the three top-selling books on your topic.
• Optional: Offer to write one or two articles for trade magazines.

10. 80/20 rule:

• 80% of the wealth and income was produced and possessed by 20% of the population — also applied outside of economics.
• 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs.
• 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.
• Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?
• Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Reference:

[1]: Tim Ferriss, “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.”

Is the 4

Again, the 4 Hour Workweek isn't designed to be taken literally. This is a pattern throughout the book. In fact, much of the information regarding internet marketing and asking a boss for a remote work agreement is completely useless for me and may be for you. Yet, overall I was really impressed with the book.

What is the summary of the 4

The summary of the four hour week book is about redefining the limits of possibility by thinking differently. Readers can learn that being financially rich and living like a millionaire are quite different. When the value of money, time, and mobility are combined, it takes on a new value.

Is the 4

To sum it up, The four-hour workweek is probably a myth in the sense that you only work four hours in a given week. What's not a myth is that work is now what you do rather than where you are.

What is the 80 20 rule Tim Ferriss?

80 percent of revenue comes from 20 percent of your clients, and so on. Tim recommends automating the non-essential and focusing on your most profitable clients. If you apply yourself to the core 20 percent, you'll regain time without seeing a decrease in business performance.