What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: "I race motorcycles in Europe." "I ski in the Andes." "I scuba dive in Panama." "I dance tango in Buenos Aires." He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the "deferred-life plan" and instead mastered the new currencies--time and mobility--to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now. Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you: · How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want · How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs · How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist · How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements" · What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income · How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair · What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks · How to cultivate selective ignorance--and create time--with a low-information diet · What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are · How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off · How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office You can have it all--really. From the Hardcover edition.
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Revolutionary Approach to Work and Life, Focus on What You Do Best, and Eliminate, Automate, or Outsource the Rest!:
Timothy Ferris shows people how to create their dream lives right now, rather than someday when they are "retired." Tim uses outsourcing, geographic arbitrage, and performance/productivity principles to transform his life from 80 hour workweeks to 4 hour workweeks, while making as much per month as he used to make in one year. The four big ideas to take and use from this book are: eliminate unnecessary and unimportant work from your life; automate anything that can be automated; use technological tools... more info
Join the new rich!:
Hey, I won a martial arts trophy not with skill but through trickery and manipulation of the rules. Am I ashamed of what I did? Not a bit -- in my book, I brag about how clever I was. I figured out how to beat the system and did it without breaking a sweat. All those Wall Street millionaires figured out how to do it too. You can join them and set yourself free! I'll show you how. It's real easy and won't take you more than 4 hours a week. Since its publication in April 2007 at the height of the... more info
A Must Read for any Business Owner:
This book has changed my working life. Even though I love running my own business it was taking up a lot of time away from my family. This book helped me to review my work processes and vastly reduce my number of work hours and at the same time increasing my the output I got from those hours. This has also become a great reference book, when I feel my work hours are creeping up I read certain sections to regain my focus.
It's worth the money :):
I had so much fun reading the book and i thoroughly enjoyed it.It's worth the money.
