4 Hour Work Week: This Dude Will Shove You Forever
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I certainly don’t live in Silicon Valley and I know most of my readers don’t either, but you can’t help but hear about the people who live there because of their huge internet presence. Its really a semi-small community and trends pass through it like wildfire. One of the more recent trends is everyone is reading a book called the 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
The book (I read it this spring) is focused on how you can automate your business processes to run without you, streamline your communications, and advises making extensive use of virtual assistant to allow you more free time to enjoy. Ferriss seems a bit of pushy kook. In fact, “pushy” is exactly the word for him, because one of his many accomplishments is that he won a Chinese kickboxing competition, when he discovered that a fighter could be disqualified if he left the ring 3 times. He also discovered that there was no rule against pushing the other fighter out of the ring. So, his opponents showed up expecting to kickbox and instead got DQ’ed by My. Shove-y Pants. I mean that’s “winning” of course I get that, but usually “winning” doesn’t also include “spoiling a Chinese kickboxing competition for everyone else.” He keeps himself very busy with extreme travel, what he calls “mini-retirements”, the most recent one I’m aware of was a swing through “London, Scotland, Sardinia, Slovak Republic, Austria, Amsterdam, and Japan” Yep, thats a lot of countries. He’s one of those guys…
Me: Oh no, my mom’s got a tumor!
Timothy Ferriss: She should try firing all her favorite automatic weapons, like I did in the Slovak Republic! It feels fantastic!
(just kidding, Mom’s fine)
although if she gets in the ring with tim…there could be pushing
That doesn’t mean the book is worthless. It’s a breeze to read it and pick up useful tips. You really got to hand it to the guy.
- He only checks email once a week
- He doesn’t read the newspaper, gets his news from waiters and cabdrivers I think.
- He outsources everything. He even outsourced his online dating.
- He creates automated businesses, fulfilled by virtual assistants and dropshippers, and runs them by remote control.
If you go to his site, he pretty much insists on being your friend for life. But, if you want to get a sample of his valuable tips, I’d suggest downloading his Eliminate Email Overload Manifesto from ChangeThis
I’ll give the man this, he understands the true nature of time management
Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.
Haha, have you seen Napolean Dynamite? This dude reminds me of the guy with the American flag pants who dates that super-buff lady Starla. But hey, you’ve got to give it to him. He knows his stuff!
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