Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Tim Ferriss has trouble defining what he does for a living. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: ‘I race motorcycles in Europe’, ‘I ski in the Andes’, ‘I scuba dive in Panama’, ‘I dance tango in Buenos Aires’. He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the ‘New Rich’, a fast-growing subculture that has abandoned the ‘deferred-life plan’ and instead mastered the new currencies – time and mobility – to create a new way of living.
Why wait a lifetime for your retirement when you can enjoy luxury now? Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing first class world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with no management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.
Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you: how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want; how blue chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs; how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist; how to exchange your career for life for short work bursts and frequent ‘mini-retirements’; how to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair; how to cultivate selective ignorance – and create time – with a low-information diet; how to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80 per cent off; and how to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office. Learn about this and more to live the life you want – now.
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I was a big fan of Tim Ferris last year but there are some practical aspects to be aware of – I’m really warey now about losing touch with the day-to-day processes happening at the ground level of my business, and also the value of getting alongside staff and working with them, rather than handing down orders.
It’s easy to forget what it was like to put in those 12 hour days, and it’s easy to reason that you’re better off paying someone else than taking the opportunity to learn new skills, when it’s really important to understand the processes that employees are providing.
Yes I would have to agree with you. I think the 4 hour work week has some good stuff but does take it too far in some aspects.