The 4-Hour Workweek

“and you know if you read Tim Ferriss book did you read the part about having a cell phone in your pocket how it cooks your balls well one of the things that he did was he did a test on his sperm count”

“Tim Ferris has some really crazy cool [ __ ] to tell us and he's a fascinating and really unique individual so if you've never heard of him he's the author of The 4-Hour Work Week the 4-Hour Body and just a brilliant dude and a great guy”

“And what is the premise behind your first book is the 4hour work week. What is the premise behind that?”

“Saturday we have uh Tim Ferris the author of the 4our work week”

“Tim Ferris 4hour work week. The 4hour body. Go buy his books, ladies and gentlemen.”

“And so he read Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek book about life design. Do you remember like the concept of life life design, which is like you can build any life that you want to build, you know, but you have to map out like what does my day look like?”

“Like you had the 4-hour work week, which is about delegation, automation and basically like 80/20 prioritization. And now you have overemployed, which is like the messed up cousin to the 4-hour work week.”

“Go read the 4-Hour Workweek if you don't believe me. It's like 4-Hour Workweek was was around this principle of of owning your time and using your time the way you want and delegating and automating and being remote and being free to live your life the way that you want.”

“This is how Tim Ferriss started the 4-Hour Workweek. He taught a class at Princeton. And there's this principle which is if you ever want to learn something, try to teach it. And that that has led to many people writing books. So, Tim Ferriss did it, then he wrote a book.”

“Because growing up, I remember when I was in college, somebody gave me a book called The 4-Hour Workweek and it blew my mind at the time.”

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

“so you read the game you get you know kind of the uh I always say this about Tim ferriss's book the four hour work week is like after you read that book you have the four hour fever yep for the next four hours you reconsider your entire life and like a fever dream”

“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.”

“so I read the four hour work week when I was in college and I got yo before covid-19 there was the four hour fever”

“I'm rereading the Four Hour Work Week. So your your bud Tim Ferriss wrote this book.”

“first one from tim ferriss so here we go read four hour work week and everybody who reads the four hour work week gets what i call the four hour fever”

“the most neglected chapter in the 4-hour work week, which is the filling the void chapter, right?”

“and and do this listen like I do this with you know Tim Ferris is the one who I've listened to for years over a decade now and and his book the 4our work week transformed my life”

“and like Jonathan mentioned at the at the outset of the interview make it like a four hour work week Tim Ferriss was that the plan to to really make this a lifestyle business”

“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”

“so you're reading the four work week which it's amazing how similar our Journeys are because that was the inflection point for me as well”

“but mini retirements this is something that has always intrigued me I read about it for the first time in the four hour work week probably 10 years ago with Tim Ferriss”

“and you know for me it started with the four hour work week the Tim Ferriss book The four-hour work week which is crazy to believe that it's more than a decade ago at this point”

“we read the four hour work week Tim Ferriss talks about Drop Shipping in the four hour work week and actually as we were looking to open our e-commerce store”

“uh I think the original Genesis of just having any idea of starting an online business was Tim ferriss's the four hour work week yeah I'm sure many of you out there have read if not highly recommend It's a Wonderful book you know”

“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.”

“four part framework of D-E-A-L. Delegate, elevate, automate, liberate, whatever the thing was. And you work through the framework. And I think when you're being introduced to a topic for the first time, I wonder if the framework is better, because I'd never read a book about habits.”

“Probably the single most life-changing book I've ever read was The 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss, and that was the book that got me on the path of realizing that I could build a business on the side while doing med school, and that could potentially make money and I potentially didn't even have to put that many hours into”

“And so for me, I'm really tickled to be here because so much of how I ran my laboratory when I first became a professor was based on principles from The 4-Hour Workweek.”

“I just want to give a nod to Tim Ferriss, who I've know only through the podcast interaction. That podcast 4-hour 4-hour workweek 4-hour body um especially um had a tremendous impact in accelerating my career in science because I was able to focus on things that really matter.”

“actually one really defining moments he made me sit down he made me read not even a chapter just a couple pages of Tim ferriss's uh the four-week work life and he was like you're gonna love it you're gonna love it”

“and like I think that Tim Ferriss mentions in his 4-hour workweek mentions that if you're really afraid to take a leap of faith like literally rate your fear from 0 to 10”

“ever since reading the four hour work week I was a senior in college I was about to graduate in electrical engineering I had my job lined up already and I read that book”

“and he goes can i recommend a book and he recommended the book four hour by week and i got home and i read through it”

“I'm thinking maybe because the impetus for this is somewhat around the connective tissue of the 4-Hour Workweek, should we just begin with how on earth you and the 4-Hour Workweek intersected?”

“the thing about the 4-hour workweek, right? The principles and frameworks all still work. Obviously, some of the tech tools since they were last updated in 2009, most of them are completely irrelevant. Probably not going to use GoToMyPC at this point, right?”

“Continued to resonate in different subject matter from the 4-hour work week with business and entrepreneurship to the 4-hour body with physical performance and interviewing coaches...”

“and the most underestimated underread chapter in the 4-hour work week is called filling the void and it's about this exactly.”

“Like, you work more than four hours a week. I'm like, 'I'm not just going to lay outside staring at the grass rubbing cocoa butter on my”

“So the idea that I could collect those in some fashion in a compendium just seems a like it would be so much fun and so gratifying for me after almost 20 years of this book being out”

“I've been asked so many times, as you would imagine, by publishers to go back and kind of fine-tune, rewrite that book. And I don't want to touch it mostly. It's too good. I mean, I appreciate you saying that.”

“People miss that and it's so important. It's like look if you just create a lot of empty space in terms of time.”

“and yeah 5% of the royalties of the 4-Hour Work week is not a small amount of money”

“She read my original proposal for The 4-Hour Workweek, and she was very encouraging.”

“And then I retired the jersey, the 4-Hour Jersey, right? Yeah. I wanted to retire that and then move to Tools of Titans.”

“every external pressure and expectation was that I would do some extension in business as my next book, 4-Hour Workweek, 3-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Workweek Extreme, 4-Hour Workweek, whatever, Revisited”

“And I really got to a point where I thought the book was not going to be finished. I was like, This might be the end.”

“So in The 4-Hour Workweek I had this DEAL structure and I thought very, very, very intently about how to structure the book...”

“tools of titans was basically my update to four hour work week for our body and for our chef simultaneously”

“I'm working as a management consultant in Washington DC and I have been a 4-hour work week acolyte for probably six months. Like evangelical. Everyone needs to read this book. We're all entrepreneurs.”

“So, I read the 4-hour work week when I was in grad school.”

“I think I even used a service that you'd listed in the 4-hour work week to try to do it and was trying to get that off the ground, you know, selling it through Google Adwords, very like stepby-step 4hour work week. Like it could have been a chapter had it worked.”

“So those two books for our work weekek game are like really deeply influencing me.”

“It's a regurgitated 4-hour work week plus my own iteration of the game thing.”

“So again, I'm evangelical. I'm telling everybody I meet, have you read the Gospel of Tim? There's this book, The 4-Hour Work Week.”

“If I had a billboard, I have to answer my Tim Ferrris question. Yeah, let's do it. I thought about this. I was like, 'In the moment, I'll find it. What is it?' Don't think, feel would be my And I know that's counterintuitive to a lot of people, but lately that's been my guiding principle is feel my heart,”

“When Tim's writing process and this goes back to his very first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, where he clearly struggled through that book.”

“But that's what Tim was doing when he was writing The 4-Hour Workweek.”

“Later on when you were writing The 4-Hour Workweek, you said your first draft, you're trying to sound smart and you're like, Okay, this isn't going to work.”

“One of the things that struck me as I was reading the 4-Hour Workweek was there is a section towards the end of the book where you have basically a set of principles and parameters for an assistant that you work with”

“One of the things that I thought was interesting in terms of your process for The 4-hour Chef was you looked at all the books with a four and a half star review, you read the reviews, you said, What's missing?”

“Tell me about this advice that you got from Michael Gerber before writing The 4-Hour Workweek. You may need to remind me. If you're going to write a book, write a fucking book.”

“or yeah we say I'm quitting my job or one of the phrases you have in the four-hour Work Week a mini retirement like one feels empowering and the other feels uh dangerous or irresponsible”

“or yeah we say I'm quitting my job or one of the phrases you have in the four-hour Work Week a mini retirement like one feels empowering and the other feels dangerous or irresponsible”

“so like in the 4our work week the funny enough one of the things that people always remember is the guest chapter by AJ Jacobs about Outsourcing his life with virtual assistance”

“like before your books were successful you were donating like a percentage of the profits of the 4our work week to you've always been I focused on not just capturing value for yourself but I would describe you as a generous person”

“which is in the 4our Sha uh and so like that you have to do things quickly and and related to that my other rule is start the clock”

“about the 4our work we why it's such an important book and why I do think it's relationship to stoicism is so important the the subtitle of that book about lifestyle design”

“But I mean Ferris has this. Is it in the 4-Hour Workweek where he talks about the more that he extracted himself out of a business, the better that the businesses did?”

“only yesterday tim ferriss guy that wrote the four-hour work week and the four-hour chef and the four-hour body this unbelievably well-known new multiple times new york times best-selling author”

“i mean even tim ferriss on 50 50 with some of his work and others in the four-hour work week”

“the first time I encountered that was years and years ago when I saw somebody holding for 4 Hour Work week and I said oh wow great book”

“I love the timing for when I read 4our work week because it was actually just after I had done this like complete delegation of everything”

“And I think about that all the time because he found one thing he disliked about you and therefore declared all 400 pages of this book to be trash.”

“so I remember calling Alex one day and at this time Alex was listening to 4-hour workweek and I was listening to it as well”

“but then we were reading the book the 4-hour workweek and we didn't have the news didn't have a muse”

“so anyways I'm not here because at the time alex was listening and we were both listening to you know for our work week and looking for the muse”

“I don't remember everything we read, but it was like it was like Tim Ferriss's book, The 4-Hour Workweek.”

“Do you remember Tim Ferriss in The 4-Hour Workweek? He had this thing called like the dream scenario or something.”

“So, like, uh, Tim Ferriss's truth was basically that like the 9-to-5 work in a cubicle for 40 years model is like effing broken and you don't need to do it that way. Like you could work 4 hours a week and live like a millionaire. And so that was like Tim Ferriss's red pill.”

“It was around that time I discovered The 4-Hour Workweek. I think it had just come out or been out for a year or something.”

“So, one of one of the books I read at the time was Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek. And uh that book was life-changing for me, but it's funny.”

“I accidentally stole a copy of the 4hour workweek from a co-worker, which I still have. I don't know who I stole it from, but I have your book. Hit me up. I I I borrowed this from a coworker and I read the book and it was really impactful to me.”

“reading the 4-hour work week changed my life. This is the original copy I have from 2016.”

“same thing's true with the 4-Hour Work Week same thing's true with permission marketing right that if you read the first three chapters of permission marketing you know what it's about”

“Seth Godin: The 4-Hour Workweek? Tim Ferriss: Yeah, The 4-Hour Workweek was 2007.”

“uh he wrote the four-hour work week he wrote the four hour body and different books and his blog and his podcast have definitely had an impact on my life”

“I think the first time I heard about this was I think Tim Ferris tested 4our a 4our work week yeah for his book and he hated the title but it it crushed all the other titles”

“and ultimately I think it's important that you say I'll never forget when I was reading 4our Work Week Tim Ferris had this whole thing about anything less than $55,000 doeses not require my opinion”

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

“So I go to the bookstore to find a book to help me get started. And I basically saw The 4-Hour Work Week, grabbed it, and it just sort of spoke to me.”

“if you read Tim Ferriss book the 4-hour workweek not for our body to the 4-hour workweek”

“in 2007 we get tim ferriss's the four-hour work week which now we think of in terms of lifestyle design and these automated businesses”

“and so reading that reading the four hour work week by Tim Ferriss back at the same time there's just a couple of those moments”

“my mom had given me the four hour work week by Tim Ferriss to read and I was kind of going down the path of I really wanted to just make as much money as possible”

“so the 4-Hour Work week I think was really the first thing that put you on the map in a in a bigger sense”

“and you know we read the four hour work week and some of these different stories uh that people have talked about and for us what we wanted was to become location independent”

“the book The 4H Hour Work Week I mean I literally read that as I was transitioning out and I would tell you you know there's a lot of things that I look back in my life I'm like okay I wouldn't change a thing but for the for the purposes of this example I think I would go back”

“and then over time as I started having an Awakening and started reading books and you know Tim Ferriss for our work week really started to challenge the way I was looking at my life and outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill and then thinking we're rich it really got me thinking about like wow I realize when I leave”

“4-Hour Workweek is a good example of this. Nobody really used that phrase before the book.”

“and so I read the 4-Hour Work week and he was talking about creating passive income streams like ebooks like a Blog things like that and he mentions real estate”

“Nobody knew who you were, you were some guy and all of a sudden this 4-Hour Workweek goes from — you got paid nothing for that book and then all of a sudden — wasn't it the same exact experience?”

“I read the far work week when I was 177 or 18 like you know it got exposed that whole idea”

“I mean your book, Four-Hour Workweek, I mean that was a riot. I mean you wrecked my life for a while, frankly.”

“Tim Ferriss: I would be willing to bet too, although I don't want to put words in your mouth, that despite that blog post, when you're talking about all of the downsides that you have experienced, if you had to go back to before, when you wrote The 4-Hour Workweek, you would not change your mind.”

“so the 4-hour workweek yeah where were you trying to go with that that book”

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

“Yeah, and this is you know, this is Four-Hour Workweek from his book, but he talked a lot about who are the right clients to have.”

“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 for this week and next week we're doing the four hour work week by Tim Ferris”

“maybe to switch that over and actually do the four hour work week based on this episode”

“and let me tie this I guess back to four hour work week which was kind of an inspiration for both Brad and myself at varying levels”

“so what I did was I actually just stumbled upon Tim ferriss's book someone told me to read Tim ferriss's book the four hour work week and he in that book says you need a recurring stream of passive income”

“Brad we we both of us were probably inspired pretty heavily by Tim ferriss's the four hour work week and I think the entrepreneur Community has largely been inspired by that idea”

“i was driving to work listening to i think the book that every anyone with a hint of entrepreneurial desire has read which is the four hour work week um and in that book if you've not read it by a guy called tim ferriss”

“and oftentimes and again this is four hour work week advice scratching your own itch is a pretty easy way to start”

“so i think you've got to read the four-hour work week to be honest i think it's it's such a the way of it's a way of thinking about it i think that's very important and tim talks about exactly what we just spoke about this idea of working towards taking mini retirements”