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The 4-Hour Work Week

byTimothy Ferriss

(Vermilion Life Essentials)

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Discover the life-changing, inspirational business book on escaping the 9-5 and finding a new way of living from the bestselling author and entrepreneur.

‘This book is a must read!’ Stephen Key, award-winning entrepreneur, inventor and bestselling author of One Simple Idea

‘[The] self-help hit of the decade’ Men’s Journal

Don’t wait to start living. Learn how to create a life that isn’t all about work with the bestselling phenomenon.

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.

Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

This step-by-step guide to living the life you want reveals:
  • How Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week
  • How to outsource your life and do whatever you want
  • How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours
  • How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent 'mini-retirements'
This edition also includes:
  • More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
  • Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients
  • Tips for how lifestyle design principles can be used to live ambitiously in unpredictable economic times
  • The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
Whether you’re just starting work or have been employed for decades, The 4-Hour Work Week is the inspirational, essential guide to living the life you want to lead.

A long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle

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About Timothy Ferriss

TIMOTHY FERRISS is a serial entrepreneur, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and angel investor/advisor (Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Uber, and 20+ more). Best known for his rapid-learning techniques, Tim’s books – Tools for Titans, The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Chef – have been published in 30+ languages. The 4-Hour Workweek has spent seven years on The New York Times bestseller list. Tim has been featured by more than 100 media outlets including the New York Times, Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Outside, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and CNN. He has guest lectured in entrepreneurship at Princeton University since 2003. His popular blog www.fourhourblog.com has 1M+ monthly readers, and his Twitter account @tferriss was selected by Mashable as one of only five "Must-Follow" accounts for entrepreneurs. When not damaging his body with abusive sports, he enjoys chocolate, bear claws and Japanese animation.
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