The 4-Hour Workweek
Quotes and highlights from The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss — 3 passages I marked up while reading (September 2023). Everything below is taken straight from my Kindle, unedited and in the order I read it.
What this book keeps circling back toblog, lifestyle and design.
All 3 highlights
The Experiments in Lifestyle Design blog (www.fourhourblog.com) was launched alongside the book, and within six months, it became one of the top 1,000 blogs in the world, out of more than 120 million. Thousands of readers have shared their own amazing tools and tricks, producing phenomenal and unexpected results. The blog became the laboratory I’d always wanted, and I encourage you to join us there.
The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound. It’s more flexible and allows you to test different lifestyles without committing to a 10- or 20-year retirement plan that can fail due to market fluctuations outside of your control.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN
What I've written around this
Where these ideas turn up in my own work.
Read alongside
Other books on the shelf that cover similar ground.
I write about what I read — medicine, technology, and what holds up across centuries — in Side Effects. The essays live in the archive, and the rest of the shelf is on Book Notes.