A Great Book- The 4 Hour Work Week

 For those of you who havent heard of the 4 Hour Work Week (4HWW), It is a great book written by Tim Ferris, I have read this book about 4 times now and every time I get more inspired to take action and "escape the 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich". I realize upon reading those captions you may be thinking that this book is a happy ending style self help book, but in reality it is full of resources and a virtual community has built around this book and the principals included in it.  It's written in a very entertaining style, and the author has accomplished some amazing things like;

•Princeton University guest lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering


•Finance and Entrepreneurship advisor at Singularity University at NASA Ames, co-founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil.

•First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango

•Speaker of 5 languages (6 if he’s reactivating something previously studied)

•National Chinese kickboxing champion


•Horseback archer (yabusame) in Nikko, Japan

•2009 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute

•Political asylum researcher

•MTV breakdancer in Taiwan

•Hurling competitor in Ireland

•Wired Magazine’s “Greatest Self-Promoter of 2008″

•Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong (“Human Cargo”)
 
 
 

 
 
The basic idea of the book is how to get more out of your life by doing less, and it really
helps you to identify your dreams and start living them now instead of waiting for retirement.