The 4-hour work week
The 4-hour work weekEscape 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich Author: Timothy Ferriss This book’s title feels like a joke at first, but once you start reading, you realize Ferriss is absolutely serious about it. He breaks things down step by step, challenging the default assumptions about work and life. He defines the “New Rich” as people who have rediscovered what being rich actually means. Most people grind away day after day, chasing the “holy” retirement, only to find that when it finally arrives, they’re already too old or too tired to enjoy it. They work longer, harder, and more, just to justify not trying a different life. The “NR” (the New Rich, as he calls them) understand that being rich isn’t about having more stuff, but about having the freedom to choose what you do and when you do it. Ferriss suggests using geographical arbitrage-moving to cheaper places where you can live like the rich, often for surprisingly little money. He encourages you not to wait for retirement, but to start taking “mini retirements” right now, throughout your life. ...