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Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week

Tim Ferriss in his book “The 4-Hour Work Week” defines the new age life-style of Entrepreneurship and the “New Rich”(New-age Entrepreneurs) . Through this book, Tim Ferriss provides a new DEAL for Living …
D for Definition, E for Elimination, A for Automation, L for Liberation…..

So let us begin with the beginning :

Definition : Who are the New Rich? …They own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time ! This is definitely contrarian running of  business...one where the owner’s time during the day is all sucked-up running the business!

Elimination:
Tim Ferris chastises the 21st century style of being “busy” as a form of laziness – Lazy thinking and Indiscriminate action….Instead the New Rich do Less with Less….Lesser number of Tasks (Pareto’s Law) in very Less time (incredibly tight deadlines) (Parkinson’s Law)

Automation:
For those readers who are reading this blog post yet, you may wonder if this is possible at all…I too had big doubts as I was reading the book…Tim Ferriss offers ideas for businesses that will fit the 4-hour work week rule ! He provides the rules for running business powered by MBA…(Management By Absence)

Liberation:
New Rich do not believe in retiring from job only at the end…They call this deferred happiness….rather they replace vacations with Mini-retirements! The argument is if you got the DEA portion of it right, L takes care of itself….


Tim Ferriss  is the guru of New-age Life style and his concepts of Work and Life as defined in 4HWW are trend-setting…If you have the guts, you can try it out…I must admit though that I have a weak heart for such an adventure!

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