#836: The 4-Hour Workweek Principles — 13 Mistakes to Avoid, The Art of Mini-Retirements, and Navigating the Dizziness of Freedom

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This time around, we have a different experimental format. Featuring the book that started it all for me, the four hour work week. And even though it was published in 2007, it was one of Amazon's top ten most highlighted books of all time. Last I checked around 2017. So This is a bit of a foreshadowing of a point I want to make. A lot of people, readers and listeners ask me what I would change or update in the four-hour work week or in other books, but especially the four hour work week. An equally interesting question, I think a very compelling question is what wouldn't I change? What stands the test of time and hasn't lost any potency? What would I absolutely not touch?

And perhaps there are a few Minor tweaks here and there, but by and large, what has stood the test of time for almost twenty years. This episode features three timeless chapters from the audiobook of the four hour work week. A chapter on taking mini retirements, which challenges everything about the deferred life plan, the slave save retire approach and shows you how to distribute adventure and retirement throughout life instead of saving it all for the end. The chapter titled Filling the Void, which addresses navigating the dizziness of freedom and Handling unexpected emotional and philosophical challenges. that you can run into, not just after reading the four hour work week, but if you're an entrepreneur of any type, really, but especially one following the tenets of lifestyle design. And last but not least, the thirteen mistakes of the new rich, where I outline the most common pitfalls I've seen in people

Encounter, stumble over when implementing the books principles. These are all narrated by the great voice actor Ray Porter, and if you are interested in checking out the rest of the audiobook, which is produced and copyrighted by Blackspun Publishing, you can find it on Audible, Apple, Google, Spotify, Downpour dot com, or wherever you find your favorite audiobooks. Until the next long form interview. Please. Enjoy. Optimal minimal.

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