The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferrys

Once I asked myself, when was the last time I took a non IT book in my hands and read it? I remembered some years from the past, and not even University times - school years! It was a shame. I felt poor man with low IQ. I had to fix it ASAP.

As I usually do, I did a short research in Internet and found a list of recommended books. One of them was "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Tim Ferrys. It's name was too catchy to leave it for later. As I don't have neither time to read in front of a fireplace, nor fireplace itself, I decided to listen it's audio version.

It was so damn interesting, that I did it twice quicker than planned to do. I was using each chance to listen 5 more minutes.



As you might guessed, this book teaches you how to spend only 4 hours a week managing your own business and being in 3 month trip somewhere in Japan. This guy is combination of obstinacy, luck, laziness, bright brain and never-ending desire to learn something new! He describes with details his path through low-payed-bad-job, good-payed-boring-job, own-business-no-free-time to own-business-nonstop-travel guy, spending on work less than average person on watching advertisement on TV.

As result, I don't want to live in Rio or Berlin (may be yet), I'm not going to lie my boss pretending that I work from home, but I definitely want to be as effective as this guy is and get at least small peace of experience and feelings this guy has got. Here are few things I got from this book:

• Sometimes not to do is better than do (Pareto was right)
• Lots of simple advises how to be more effective on my job
• Traveling is not always expensive
• Travel "Tips and tricks", how to prepare and minimize risks
• There is nothing impossible in our life and there is nothing easy neither. 
• Read fast and a lot
• Delegate routine tasks if it is possible to those, whose hour costs less

I bet I'll reread this book after some time, because there are lot's of recommendations worse hearing again. Recommend!

Русская версия.