The '4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich'

Version: Unabridged
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Narrator: Ray Porter
Genres: Business, Self-help
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: April 2007
Length: 8 hours, 30 minutes
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Overview

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The 28-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past 4 years -- a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living.

Selected Reviews

The Four-Hour Work Week

by K.D. San Jose, CA
  • Book Rating: 1/5

Some bad ideas, some good ones

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 3/5

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Reviews (2)

The Four-Hour Work Week

Written by K.D. San Jose, CA from San Jose, CA on January 24th, 2010

  • Book Rating: 1/5

Total garbage. The author is in love with himself and I have not heard a more shameless, self-centered, self-promoter since I watched the TV show "My life on the D list with Kathy Griffin". At least Kathy Griffin is funny and I love her by the way but I don't watch her show to learn. Every sentence in the first 20 minutes of this book begins with the words; I, Me or My. The best thing I got out of this was the 20 minutes of cardio since I was on the Stair Climber at the gym. Don't waste your time with this one. I wanted to rate it "Zero Stars" but it wouldn't let me.

Some bad ideas, some good ones

Written by Anonymous from Sunnyvale, CA on June 2nd, 2008

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Initially I was going to give this book two stars, but luckily for the author, I did not take his advice of walking away from something you're not enjoying and continued to listen to the book. My first gripe is that he really has no job experience. He was fired from his first two jobs, then started a vitamin supplement online business called 'BrainQuicken' and that's how he makes his living. I sometimes wonder if this site is a farce because sometimes it is down all day! But more likely it's just poorly run because he outsources all of his work and checks in once per week maximum. Ferriss teaches you how to be a bad citizen and employee. He doesn't keep up on current events and suggests being short and curt with co-workers and to skip out on meetings whenever possible. His suggestions could be career killers. On the other hand he does have a few good ideas on how to start your own online business - this is why I give him three stars instead of two.

Selected Reviews

The Four-Hour Work Week

by K.D. San Jose, CA
  • Book Rating: 1/5

Some bad ideas, some good ones

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 3/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Ferriss, Timothy

Serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond Timothy Ferriss has been featured by dozens of media, including The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, NBC, and MAXIM. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.

Tim has been profiled in The Success Principles, the New York Times bestseller written by Jack Canfield, and is a main character in the upcoming feature-length documentary "As Seen on TV," produced by Emmy Award winner Dan Partland.

As a professional polymath, he has amassed a diverse roster of credentials and experience:

* Princeton University guest lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering
* Cage fighter in Japan, vanquisher of four world champions (MMA)
* First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango (video)
* Advisor to more than 30 world record holders in professional and Olympic sports
* National Chinese kickboxing champion (video)
* Glycemic Index (GI) researcher Political asylum researcher and activist
* MTV breakdancer in Taiwan
* Hurling competitor in Ireland
* Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong

Since his debut presentation on The 4-Hour Workweek at the world-famous SXSW Interactive conference on March 12, 2007, Tim has been invited to speak at some of the most innovative companies and universities in the world, ranging from Google and PayPal to Princeton University, the Wharton School, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including Supernova, FOO Camp, Community Next, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

Tim received his BA from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments. He developed his nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee and formed his life philosophies under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.

He is 29 years old, and The 4-Hour Workweek is his first book and magnum opus.