Money and freedom
The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape the 9-to-5 through elimination, automation and mobility.
Key concepts
- DEAL: definition, elimination, automation, liberation
- Pareto principle and Parkinson’s law
- Outsource and automate the business
- Mini-retirements instead of deferred life
How I use it
In my ideal world I’d work the usual forty hours a week, but across ten companies and projects at four hours each. That’s the ambition this book planted.
What changed me most, though, wasn’t the book but Tim Ferriss’s podcast. I learned an enormous amount from the people he interviews. His work taught me a habit I still keep: when you see successful people, study what they read, their routines, how they work and the circumstances they work in, and shape your own around what fits.
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