The 4-Hour Workweek Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

There's a lot of books on people just trying to avoid work.

And there's no amount just like technology in saying leave your phone outside of the room for two hours before bed and don't check it for the first four hours that that genie is out of the bottle

And there's a whole book on how you can work less, which a lot of people want to do.

I did the 4-Hour Workweek.

So your first book, The Four Hour Work Week, I am curious because I don't know, the word I'm looking for is not fraud, but I'm pretty sure you work many more hours than four hours per week yourself.

Well, the objective of the book for those people who haven't read it, and I'm sure many of the people have not, is to provide you with tools and principles for 10xing your hourly output.

The Four Hour Work Week title was one of 12 titles that I tested on Google AdWords.

And that performed the best of the options that I had.

But the other kind of misperception of the Four Hour Work Week is that, especially because it's got a palm tree on the cover, the objective is not to stare out into space rubbing cocoa butter on your belly for the rest of your life.

So the appeal of working less shows up in our books and popular culture almost everywhere. There are books like The 4-Hour Workweek, for example, and they become bestsellers because they promise we can work a few hours a week and then kick back and relax.

He was saying that people get fatty livers now from sugar. There's people it was when you're when you operated on they ask you like do you drink? And yes if you like drinking more than five nights a night so or five drinks a night.

They have to hit you with like benzodiazepine When you get a surgery so you don't hit the fucking DT's or in your hospital I didn't know this in your hospital bed. They'll give you the DT's from five drinks, and that's what this do.

Take it with dr. Don't drink in there fucking pussies about it Like well you're not supposed to have more than two drinks, it's like shut up, dude

I remember I read a book called "The 4-Hour Workweek." It was really interesting because he had like a really different way of thinking about like work, and time, and how you maximize your time.

I gave that book to all my friends. It was a big deal for me.

One of the things I remember reading was the 4-Hour Workweek, and it was like, how can I hack this work stuff, like I don't have to be at the office.

I read that book, that 4-Hour Workweek a long time ago.

There was a book that really kind of helped me with that transition, which was "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss, and it talks about the idea that you can build your own business. You don't have to work a traditional 9 to 5 job to be successful, and you can set up your life in a way that is more conducive to your health and longevity.

It was four-factor model based, even though I didn't know at the time, I came up with that.

I was at four hour workweek when it came out, you know, did and that's what really inspired me to stop doing the mail.

At the time I had recently read a book by Tim Ferriss called the four hour work week.

I think at about this time, I came across the four hour work week book and that was eyeopening. Uh, there's kind of a formula in there with the different types of products that work in an e-commerce type of business.

And there was a list in there and I don't remember everything, but there were definitely things. It was basically something that was, that you could ship easily, that wouldn't break, that was high value, you know, wasn't overly complex.

Or overly seasonal.

Yeah. And so with that in mind, we were thinking, Oh, what, what could we do that, that would fit that?

And I had this idea of this four hour work week. That's why we set out to do this.

At the time, 4-Hour Workweek was like, all of those a huge deal, right?

I had read 4-Hour Workweek. And particularly as it related to RunMyErin.com, I thought, oh my god, if I could get Tim as an advisor to this company, that's going to be a huge win for us.

And we just really bond and connect over four hour work week and run my errand and how they're so collaborative.

instantly I thought of Tim Ferriss and of course his book, The Four Hour Workweek came out in 2009, but you were basically doing this at the time.

In 2007, a completely unknown writer named Tim Ferriss published an obscure book called The Four Hour Workweek.

The book basically outlined how Tim escaped the 9 to 5 grind by outsourcing most of his job to other people.

But none of that ever worried Tim Ferriss, because he had a plan.

And yet Tim Ferriss, an unknown writer and entrepreneur who lived in a small apartment in San Jose, California, would go on to sell more than 2 million copies of The Four Hour Workweek.

That book sat on the New York Times bestseller list for four years.

He's the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.

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We here at the Monday Morning Podcast are huge fans of the Tim Ferriss show which was selected As one of iTunes best of 215.

His show was look how big I'm being right now I could be all upset

The podcast has been downloaded by more than 80 more than 80 million times.

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We here at the Monday Morning Podcast are huge fans of the Tim Ferriss Show which was selected as one of iTunes best of 2015.

And in each episode Tim deconstructs world-class performers from every walk of life, business, sports, investing or more to find the tools, tactics, and routines you can use. Favorite books checked, morning routines checked.

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We here at the Monday Morning Podcast are huge fans of the Tim Ferriss Show, which was selected as one of iTunes' best of 2015.

The podcast has been downloaded by more than 80 million times.

Just visit, um, forourworkweek.com/tim.

The podcast has been downloaded by more than 80 million people or 80 million times. And in each episode, Tim deconstructs world class performers from every walk of life, business, sports, investing in more to find the tools, tactics and routines you can use.

Favorite books, check morning routines, check. And that's just the beginning.

So I guess he interviews a bunch of successful people and then they give you their secrets and then you apply them to your life.

We here at the Monday Morning Podcast are huge fans of the Tim Ferriss Show, which was selected as one of iTunes' Best of 2015.

The podcast has been downloaded by more than 80 million times.

And in each episode, Tim deconstructs world-class performers from every walk of life, business, sports, investing, or more to find the tools, tactics, and routines you can use.

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The 4-Hour Workweek was really the collection of notes from those guest lectures assembled into a book, which was recommended by a few of the students in the class and then by a friend of mine who was an author.

I think that's right, yeah, I mean especially this whole generation of people right. So, for example, e-commerce entrepreneurs, what are they really good at? It's like ad words buying and like optimizing your click-through rates and user flows, and so like it's a very natural extension that we go from optimizing every part of our business into optimizing ourselves.

This whole generation of people right, so for example, e-commerce entrepreneurs what are they really good at? It's like ad words buying and like optimizing your click through rates and user flows. And so like it's a very natural extension that we go from optimizing every part of our business into optimizing ourselves.

This whole generation of people right, so for example, e-commerce entrepreneurs, what are they really good at? It's like ad words buying and like optimizing your click-through rates and user flows and so like it's a very natural extension that we go from optimizing every part of our business into optimizing ourselves.

This the Tim Ferris kind of started this fire with Four Hour Body, Four Hour Workweek before that what do you think about that idea? I think that's right yeah I mean especially this whole generation of people right so for example e-commerce entrepreneurs what are they really good at? It's like ad words buying and like optimizing your click through rates and user flows and so like it's a very natural extension that we go from optimizing every part of our business into optimizing ourselves that makes sense.

I think that's right. Yeah, I mean especially this whole generation of people right. So, for example, e-commerce entrepreneurs, what are they really good at? It's like ad words buying and like optimizing your click through rates and user flows, and so like it's a very natural extension that we go from optimizing every part of our business into optimizing ourselves.

When I first read about Justin's life, I envisioned him as a wealthy tech entrepreneur, a Tim Ferriss type.

He's written five number one New York Times best-selling books, including the four-hour work week, tools of Titans, the tactics, routines, and habits of billionaires, icons, and world-class performers, tribe of mentors, short-life advice from the best in the world, and more.

An easy way to remember at least how I tend to approach it is with this framework, which was in the first book, the Firework Week, D-E-A-L, which is define, eliminate, automate, and then liberate.

oh you should hire a virtual assistant to read the book for you and then give you a one-pager

and their shows suck because they're reading a one-pager for an hour long show

he would just read the four hour work week so he doesn't do anything outsource I mean oh you should hire a virtual assistant to read the book for you and then give you a one-pager

my other best friend from growing up gave me a pirated copy of the four hour week like line wire and i was like oh like there's another way to live here like you can you know whether the methods are still applicable today like the mentality behind it is really cool

in the four hour work week the funny enough one of the things that people always remembers the guest chapter by a j Jacobs about outsourcing his life with virtual assistance but they tend to miss and this is going to lead into my question the filling the void chapter

since the first book you're right that a portion has been donated to different non-profits or causes

five percent of the royalties of the four hour work week it's not a small amount of money

And so I knew from when I first discovered the four-hour work week that right the objective is going to be to build these sources of income on the side so that when I do medicine it's genuinely because I enjoy it and not because I need the money.