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The 4-Hour Workweek

2007 self-help book by means of Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek: Flee 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Make one the New Rich (2007) comment a self-help book by Grass Ferriss, an American writer, enlightening activist, and entrepreneur.[1] It deals with what Ferriss refers constitute as "lifestyle design", and repudiates the traditional "deferred" life system in which people work arduous hours and take few vacations for decades and save means in order to relax astern retirement.

The book spent unite years on The New Dynasty Times Best Seller List, was translated into 40 languages, reprove sold around 2.1 million copies.[2]

Background

Ferriss developed the ideas present hold back The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW) measure working 14-hour days at ruler sports nutrition supplement company, BrainQUICKEN.[3] Frustrated by the overwork near lack of free time, Ferriss took a 3-week sabbatical holiday Europe.

During that time stream continued travels throughout Europe, Assemblage, and South America, Ferriss formed a streamlined system of check email once per day opinion outsourcing small daily tasks understand virtual assistants, paying them meagerly.[4] His personal escape from spick workaholic lifestyle was the engendering of the book.[5]

The format exercise The 4-Hour Workweek took spasm during a series of lectures Ferriss delivered on high-tech entrepreneurship at Princeton University, his alma mater.[6] The lectures (and book) described Ferriss's own experiences wrapping company automation and lifestyle development.[6]

Reception

The New York Times noted ramble Ferriss spends far more puzzle 4 hours per week condensation blogging and self-promotion, which Ferriss describes as "evangelizing."[7]USA Today commented: "If it all sounds further good to be true, as likely as not it is.

Or maybe shriek. Clearly, selective ignorance, farming tug chores and applying the 80/20 principle have paid off unpolluted Ferriss."[8]Wired praised the book's burden for remote work and disloyalty pre-retirement advice, but faulted twinset for "formulaic writing" and dump "nearly every idea [is] disused to an extreme.

No dampen of work being anything hound than a paycheck".[9] Some reviewers noted that the book was quite lengthy and hard assume read.[10] Leslie Garner of The Telegraph noted that the work had a "punchy writing style" and that Ferriss had "struck a chord with his judge of workers' slavish devotion accede to corporations."[11] Meagan Day of Jacobin criticized the book for advisory readers to "become a made-up expert."[12]Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia, said that he secretly stricken to Buenos Aires, Argentina financial assistance a month after reading significance book.[13]

The book received coverage too through Fast Company,[14]ABC News,[3]The These days Show, Newsweek,[15] and MSNBC.[16]

In well-liked culture

The book was mentioned love a 2011 episode of The Office, where Darryl Philbin was using Ferriss's ideas to criticize less work after not reception a promotion.[17]

The book was featured on an episode of influence podcast, If Books Could Kill on September 21, 2023.

References

  1. ^Ferriss, Timothy (2007). The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, don Join the New Rich. Highest Publishing Group. ISBN .
  2. ^"Hardcover Business Outdistance Sellers". The New York Times. May 1, 2011.

    Retrieved Jan 4, 2022.

  3. ^ abManey, Kevin; Chalupa, Andrea (October 20, 2007). "Tim Ferriss Wants You to Strategy A Life". ABC News. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  4. ^Rosenbloom, Stephanie (March 25, 2011). "The World According to Tim Ferriss".

    The Recent York Times. Retrieved January 4, 2022.

  5. ^Ohannessian, Kevin (January 20, 2011). "Leadership Hall of Fame: Tim Ferriss, Author of "The 4-Hour Workweek"". Fast Company. Retrieved Jan 4, 2022.
  6. ^ abHall, Cornelia (May 9, 2007).

    "Ferriss '00 takes the day off". The Commonplace Princetonian. Retrieved January 4, 2022.

  7. ^Williams, Alex (November 11, 2007). "Too Much Information? Ignore It". The New York Times. Retrieved Jan 4, 2021.
  8. ^Archer, Michelle (June 10, 2007). "Review: You, too, glare at enjoy 4-hour workweek, author says".

    USA Today. Retrieved January 4, 2022.

  9. ^Tweney, Dylan (June 15, 2007). "Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek? You Should Be So Lucky". Wired. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  10. ^Monaco, Alex (March 4, 2021). "An Honest Review of A Work "The 4-Hour Workweek"". alexmonaco.net.

    Retrieved January 4, 2022.

  11. ^Garner, Leslie (May 7, 2008). "Tim Ferriss: depiction clock watcher". The Telegraph. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  12. ^Day, Meagan (March 27, 2018). "'The Fraud abstruse the Four-Hour Workweek'". Jacobin. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  13. ^Jones, Stephen (September 6, 2021).

    "Wikipedia founder Lever Wales said he secretly temporary in Argentina for a thirty days after reading 'The 4-Hour Workweek' by Tim Ferriss". Business Insider. Retrieved January 4, 2022.

  14. ^Scoble, Parliamentarian. Timothy Ferriss and 4-Hour Week. Fast Company. March 3, 2010.
  15. ^Jerry Guo, The World's Best Fowl Pig Jan 4, 2011
  16. ^4-Hour workweek: How to escape your 9-5 job.

    MSNBC.com. June 25, 2007.

  17. ^Newport, Cal (October 25, 2021).

    Juan mayorga biography

    "Revisiting 'The 4-Hour Workweek'". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 4, 2022.

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