The 4 hours week of Tim Ferriss (2/2)

Jan 31, 2008  1 Comment


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We continue aujourd’ today our overflight book The 4 hours week of Tim Ferriss.

After having defined which is them New Rich person and started with seriously considering the prospect d’ one life more exciting, let us continue with the phase d’ elimination:

To eliminate to concentrate on its most profitable activities

Here, Tim Ferriss states the majority of the means which make it possible to get rid of all the futile one of its working week to concentrate on l’ essence:

  • Report/ratio 80/20 or law of Pareto : d’ after this law, 80% of our productivity come from 20% of our work. You thus put the following question: “ How you would save 4/5 of your hours if c’ was a question of life or death? ”. This law can be also used to be focused on the most profitable customers of its company.
  • The law of Parkinson : this law indicates qu’ one is more productive when l’ expiry is short. Point out you your duties to be returned to l’ école…
  • L’ selective ignorance : avoid exposing you to too d’ information. Tim Ferriss never acknowledges for example not to read the newspaper (with share possibly headlines) and to privilege the human contact to collect l’ essence of l’ topicality. To see the continuation »

The 4 hours week of Tim Ferriss (1/2)

Jan 30, 2008  2 Comments

Buy the 4 hours week on AmazonCa made a good moment that j’ intended to speak about the famous book The 4 Hour WorkWeek of Tim Ferriss. And j’ finally was pleased to traverse it. The title in itself is rather provocative and intriguing: The 4 Hours Week, and one can say of it as much the major part of the book.

L’ principal idea is that many people finish by s’ to identify with their job for want of anything better. They turned the back on their dreams or deferred them to a hypothetical retirement.

Tim Ferriss proposes very an other approach: to optimize its generating activities of income to give time to leave regularly in mini-retirement without awaiting the end of its active life.

And it is well placed to speak puisqu’ about it; it applied itself its method to carry out some prowesses:

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