The 4-Hour Work Week

“Do you remember Tim Ferris in 'The 4-Hour Workweek'? He had something called the 'dream scenario' or something similar.”

“There are so many books like that: The 4-Hour Work Week, you know?”

“It kind of buried the lead on, 'Hey guys, this is more of a Tim Ferriss for our workweek kind of story.'”

“I just read the 4-Hour Workweek, and I decided that this weekend, we were going to make money, no matter what.”

“I might take a look at it because we have had this experience before where you've sent me finished books with pages ripped out, saying, 'Delete this page, delete this page.' The reason that I don't read manuscripts is that I cannot turn off editing; I will do a full book edit that takes an absurd amount of time because”

“and I lean heavily on a lot of principles from 'The Four-Hour Work Week.'”

“and it's crucial—like the insights in the book 'The Four Hour Workweek.'”

“But yeah, it does like, you know, I don't think Tim Ferriss when he started, you know, the Four Hour Work Week or even his podcast would have been like, "Yeah, and then what I'm going to do is invest in Uber and make a hundred million!"”

“But then I miss that Thursday and think, Tim Ferriss says batching is good, so why don't I batch a whole week? I film 15 videos in that week, allowing me to chill for six weeks but then find that this week in Austin, I didn’t feel like filming anything at all.”

“And when I say reading, I mean Michael would read two books a week, and the two books weren't like 'The 4-Hour Workweek' or anything like that, you know?”

“Reading that, alongside 'The Four-Hour Workweek' by Tim Ferriss at the same time, was just a couple of those moments. Both in my real estate business and reading, they made me think, 'Wait a minute, what about trying to do it simpler?”

“His books, The 4-Hour Chef, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Work Week not only explain his own exploration of how to optimize and prioritize his time and learn particular skills but also teach you those skills as well.”

“But rather than trying to collect people like Pokémon cards, developing, say, three to five deeper relationships through longer conversations at an event is what directly led to the hockey stick growth for 'The 4-Hour Workweek' within tech, specifically in San Francisco.”

“but I literally after again after reading the four-hour work week and he talked about like Drop Shipping products I literally bought a website for I kid you not 512 dollars”

“it was a unique opportunity right to look at someone who has basically created this four hour work week type entrepreneur job right”

“and because I was open to learning how to create a WordPress site and a drop ship site after I read the four-hour work week and you know all these kind of crazy things led me to this point”

“But I told him the honest answer: what Tim Ferriss does is awesome. It seems like he gets to wake up, be curious, run experiments, learn, and share cool insights with millions of people.”

“I read about it for the first time in The 4-Hour Workweek, probably ten years ago, with Tim Ferriss, and he talked about setting up these little times off and dreamlining.”

“Brad, both of us were likely inspired heavily by Tim Ferriss's 'The 4-Hour Workweek,' and the entrepreneurial community has largely been inspired by that idea. However, most people would say that it's unrealistic for 99% of them, and that's not the essence of it.”

“Speaking of your wood storage racks, you mentioned Tim Ferriss and his drop shipping model in 'The 4-Hour Workweek.'”

“When I read 'The Four-Hour Work Week' and heard about drop shipping, my mind exploded because I realized there was a potential income stream I could create with really not too much effort, and that was exciting to me.”

“And then I think we have to be able to set up systems so that we, Tim Ferriss the heck out of things and work our four-day work week.”