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The 4-Hour Work week

“It’s about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the

mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be

huge.”

—JACK CANFIELD, cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies

sold

“Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life, it’s

all here. Whether you’re a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will

change your life!”

—PHIL TOWN, New York Times bestselling author of Rule #1

“The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just

how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work?

A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be

inspired by it!”

—MICHAEL E. GERBER, founder and chairman of E-Myth Worldwide and the world’s

#1 small business guru

“This is a whole new ball game. Highly recommended.”

—DR. STEWART D. FRIEDMAN, adviser to Jack Welch and former Vice President Al Gore

on work/family issues and director of the Work/Life Integration Program at

the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

“Timothy has packed more lives into his 29 years than Steve Jobs has in his

51.”

—TOM FOREMSKI, journalist and publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com

“If you want to live life on your own terms, this is your blueprint.”

—MIKE MAPLES, cofounder of Motive Communications (IPO to $260M market.

Rules That Change the Rules_________

EVERYTHING POPULAR IS WRONG

I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a

formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

—HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the

Pulitzer Prize

Everything popular is wrong.

—OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest

Beating the Game, Not Playing the Game

In 1999, sometime after quitting my second unfulfilling job and eating

peanut-butter sandwiches for comfort, I won the gold medal at the Chinese

Kickboxing (Sanshou) National Championships.

It wasn’t because I was good at punching and kicking. God forbid. That

seemed a bit dangerous, considering I did it on a dare and had four weeks of

preparation. Besides, I have a watermelon head—it’s a big target.

I won by reading the rules and looking for unexploited opportunities, of

which there were two:

1. Weigh-ins were the day prior to competition: Using dehydration

techniques commonly practiced by elite powerlifters and Olympic

wrestlers, I lost 28 pounds in 18 hours, weighed in at 165 pounds, and then

hyperhydrated back to 193 pounds.

2

It’s hard to fight someone from three

weight classes above you. Poor little guys.

2. There was a technicality in the fine print: If one combatant fell off the

elevated platform three times in a single round, his opponent won bydefault. I decided to use this technicality as my principal technique and

push people off. As you might imagine, this did not make the judges the

happiest Chinese I’ve ever seen.

The result? I won all of my matches by technical knock-out (TKO) and

went home national champion, something 99% of those with 5–10 years of

experience had been unable to do.

But, isn’t pushing people out of the ring pushing the boundaries of

ethics? Not at all—it’s no more than doing the uncommon within the rules.

The important distinction is that between official rules and self-imposed

rules. Consider the following example, from the official website of the

Olympic movement (www.olympic.org).

The 1968 Mexico City Olympics marked the international debut of Dick

Fosbury and his celebrated “Fosbury flop,” which would soon revolutionize

high-jumping. At the time, jumpers… swung their outside foot up and over

the bar [called the “straddle,” much like a hurdle jump, it allowed you to

land on your feet]. Fosbury’s technique began by racing up to the bar at

great speed and taking off from his right (or outside) foot. Then he twisted

his body so that he went over the bar head-first with his back to the bar.

While the coaches of the world shook their heads in disbelief, the Mexico

City audience was absolutely captivated by Fosbury and shouted, “Olé!” as

he cleared the bar. Fosbury cleared every height through 2.22 metres

without a miss and then achieved a personal record of 2.24 metres to win

the gold medal.

By 1980, 13 of the 16 Olympic finalists were using the Fosbury flop.

The weight-cutting techniques and off-platform throwing I used are now

standard features of Sanshou competition. I didn’t cause it, I just foresaw it

as inevitable, as did others who tested this superior approach. Now it’s par

for the course.

Sports evolve when sacred cows are killed, when basic assumptions are

tested.

The same is true in life and in lifestyles.

Challenging the Status Quo vs. Being Stupid

Most people walk down the street on their legs. Does that mean I walk

down the street on my hands? Do I wear my underwear outside of my pants

in the name of being different? Not usually, no. Then again, walking on my

legs and keeping my thong on the inside have worked just fine thus far. I

don’t fix it if it isn’t broken.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results

are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don’t follow a

model that doesn’t work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a

cook you are.

When I was in data storage sales, my first gig out of college, I realized

that most cold calls didn’t get to the intended person for one reason:

gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00–8:30 A.M. and 6:00–6:30

P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more

than twice as many meetings as the senior sales executives who called from

9–5. In other words, I got twice the results for 1/8 the time.

From Japan to Monaco, from globetrotting single mothers to

multimillionaire racecar drivers, the basic rules of successful NR are

surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of the

world is doing.

The following rules are the fundamental____ differentiators to keep in mind

throughout this book.

1. Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance.

2. Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing

3. more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario: in this case,

4. becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of

5. capital to survive.

6. Retirement as a goal or final redemption is flawed for at least three solid

7. reasons:

8. 1. It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing

9. during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a

10. nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED AND

UPDATED EDITION____________________________

The 4-Hour Workweek was turned down by 26 out of 27 publishers.

After it was sold, the president of one potential marketing partner, a large

bookseller, emailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clear—this

wouldn’t be a mainstream success.

So I did all I knew how to do. I wrote it with two of my closest friends in

mind, speaking directly to them and their problems—problems I long had—

and I focused on the unusual options that had worked for me around the

world.

I certainly tried to set conditions for making a sleeper hit possible, but I

knew it wasn’t likely. I hoped for the best and planned for the worst.

May 2, 2007, I receive a call on my cell phone from my editor.

“Tim, you hit the list.”

It was just past 5 P.M. in New York City, and I was exhausted. The book

had launched five days before, and I had just finished a series of more than

twenty radio interviews in succession, beginning at 6 A.M. that morning. I

never planned a book tour, preferring instead to “batch” radio satellite tours

into 48 hours.

“Heather, I love you, but please don’t $#%* with me.”

“No, you really hit the list. Congratulations, Mr. New York Times

bestselling author!”

I leaned against the wall and slid down until I was sitting on the floor. I

closed my eyes, smiled, and took a deep breath. Things were about to

change.

Everything was about to change.

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