Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

PRAISE FOR
The 4-Hour Workweek Its about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge. JACK CANFIELD , cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul , 100+ million copies soldStunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life, its all here. Whether youre a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life! PHIL TOWN , New York Times bestselling author of Rule #1 The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work? A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it! MICHAEL E. GERBER , founder and chairman of E-Myth Worldwide and the worlds #1 small business guruThis is a whole new ball game. Highly recommended. DR. STEWART D. FRIEDMAN , adviser to Jack Welch and former Vice President Al Gore on work/family issues and director of the Work/Life Integration Program at the Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaTimothy has packed more lives into his 29 years than Steve Jobs has in his 51. TOM FOREMSKI , journalist and publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com If you want to live life on your own terms, this is your blueprint. MIKE MAPLES , cofounder of Motive Communications (IPO to $260M market cap) and founding executive of Tivoli (sold to IBM for $750M)Thanks to Tim Ferriss, I have more time in my life to travel, spend time with family, and write book blurbs. This is a dazzling and highly useful work. A. J. JACOBS , editor-at-large of Esquire magazine and author of The Know-It-All Tim is Indiana Jones for the digital age. Ive already used his advice to go spearfishing on remote islands and ski the best hidden slopes of Argentina. Simply put, do what he says and you can live like a millionaire. ALBERT POPE , derivatives specialist at UBS World HeadquartersReading this book is like putting a few zeros on your income. Tim brings lifestyle to a new levellisten to him! MICHAEL D. KERLIN , McKinsey & Company consultant to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and a J. William Fulbright ScholarPart scientist and part adventure hunter, Tim Ferriss has created a road map for an entirely new world. I devoured this book in one sittingI have seen nothing like it. CHARLES L. BROCK , chairman and CEO of Brock Capital Group; former CFO, COO, and general counsel of Scholastic, Inc.; and former president of the Harvard Law School AssociationOutsourcing is no longer just for Fortune 500 companies. Small and mid-sized firms, as well as busy professionals, can outsource their work to increase their productivity and free time for more important commitments. Its time for the world to take advantage of this revolution. VIVEK KULKARNI , CEO of Brickwork India and former IT secretary of Bangalore; credited as the techno-bureaucrat who helped make Bangalore an IT destination in IndiaTim is the master! I should know. I followed his rags to riches path and watched him transform himself from competitive fighter to entrepreneur. He tears apart conventional assumptions until he finds a better way. DAN PARTLAND , Emmy Awardwinning producer of American High and Welcome to the Dollhouse The 4-Hour Workweek is an absolute necessity for those adventurous souls who want to live life to its fullest. Buy it and read it before you sacrifice any more! JOHN LUSK , group product manager at Microsoft World HeadquartersIf you want to live your dreams now, and not in 20 or 30 years, buy this book! LAURA RODEN , chairman of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs and a lecturer in Corporate Finance at San Jose State UniversityWith this kind of time management and focus on the important things in life, people should be able to get 15 times as much done in a normal workweek. TIM DRAPER , founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, financiers to innovators including Hotmail, Skype, and Overture.com Tim has done what most people only dream of doing. I cant believe he is going to let his secrets out of the bag. This book is a must read! STEPHEN KEY , top inventor and team designer of Teddy Ruxpin and Lazer Tag and a consultant to the television show American Inventor

PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED AND
UPDATED EDITION T he 4-Hour Workweek was turned down by 26 out of 27 publishers.After it was sold, the president of one potential marketing partner, a large bookseller, e-mailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clearthis wouldnt be a mainstream success.So I did all I knew how to do. I wrote it with two of my closest friends in mind, speaking directly to them and their problemsproblems I long hadand I focused on the unusual options that had worked for me around the world.I certainly tried to set conditions for making a sleeper hit possible, but I knew it wasnt likely. I hoped for the best and planned for the worst.May 2, 2007, I receive a call on my cell phone from my editor.Tim, you hit the list.It was just past 5 P.M . in New York City, and I was exhausted. The book had launched five days before, and I had just finished a series of more than twenty radio interviews in succession, beginning at 6 A.M . that morning. I never planned a book tour, preferring instead to batch radio satellite tours into 48 hours.Heather, I love you, but please dont $#%* with me.No, you really hit the list. Congratulations, Mr. New York Times bestselling author!I leaned against the wall and slid down until I was sitting on the floor. I closed my eyes, smiled, and took a deep breath. Things were about to change.Everything was about to change. Lifestyle Design from Dubai to Berlin T he 4-Hour Workweek has now been sold into 35 languages. Its been on the bestseller lists for more than two years, and every month brings a new story and a new discovery.From the Economist to the cover of the New York Times Style section, from the streets of Dubai to the cafes of Berlin, lifestyle design has cut across cultures to become a worldwide movement. The original ideas of the book have been broken apart, improved, and tested in environments and ways I never could have imagined.So why the new edition if things are working so well? Because I knew it could be better, and there was a missing ingredient: you.This expanded and updated edition contains more than 100 pages of new content, including the latest cutting-edge technologies, field-tested resources, andmost importantreal-world success stories chosen from more than 400 pages of case studies submitted by readers.Families and students? CEOs and professional vagabonds? Take your pick. There should be someone whose results you can duplicate. Need a template to negotiate remote work, a paid year in Argentina, perhaps? This time, its in here.The Experiments in Lifestyle Design blog ( www.fourhourblog.com ) was launched alongside the book, and within six months, it became one of the top 1,000 blogs in the world, out of more than 120 million. Thousands of readers have shared their own amazing tools and tricks, producing phenomenal and unexpected results. The blog became the laboratory Id always wanted, and I encourage you to join us there.The new Best of the Blog section includes several of the most popular posts from the Experiments in Lifestyle Design blog. On the blog itself, you can also find recommendations from everyone from Warren Buffett (seriously, I tracked him down and show you how I did it) to chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin. Its an experimental playground for those who want better results in less time. Not Revised T his is not a revised edition in the sense that the original no longer works. The typos and small mistakes have been fixed over more than 40 printings in the U.S. This is the first major overhaul, but not for the reason youd expect.Things have changed dramatically since April 2007. Banks are failing, retirement and pension funds are evaporating, and jobs are being lost at record rates. Readers and skeptics alike have asked: Can the principles and techniques in the book really still work in an economic recession or depression?Yes and yes.In fact, questions I posed during pre-crash lectures, including How would your priorities and decisions change if you could never retire? are no longer hypothetical. Millions of people have seen their savings portfolios fall 40% or more in value and are now looking for options C and D. Can they redistribute retirement throughout life to make it more affordable? Can they relocate a few months per year to a place like Costa Rica or Thailand to multiply the lifestyle output of their decreased savings? Sell their services to companies in the UK to earn in a stronger currency? The answer to all of them is, more than ever, yes.The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound. Its more flexible and allows you to test different lifestyles without committing to a 10- or 20-year retirement plan that can fail due to market fluctuations outside of your control. People are open to exploring alternatives (and more forgiving of others who do the same), as many of the other optionsthe once safe optionshave failed.When everything and everyone is failing, what is the cost of a little experimentation outside of the norm? Most often, nothing. Flash forward to 2011; is a job interviewer asking about that unusual gap year?Everyone was getting laid off and I had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel around the world. It was incredible.If anything, theyll ask you how to do the same. The scripts in this book still work.Facebook and LinkedIn launched in the post-2000 dot-com depression. Other recession-born babies include Monopoly, Apple, Cliff Bar, Scrabble, KFC, Dominos Pizza, FedEx, and Microsoft. This is no coincidence, as economic downturns produce discounted infrastructure, outstanding freelancers at bargain prices, and rock-bottom advertising dealsall impossible when everyone is optimistic.Whether a yearlong sabbatical, a new business idea, reengineering your life within the corporate beast, or dreams youve postponed for some day, there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.Whats the worst that could happen?I encourage you to remember this often-neglected question as you begin to see the infinite possibilities outside of your current comfort zone. This period of collective panic is your big chance to dabble.Its been an honor to share the last two years with incredible readers around the world, and I hope you enjoy this new edition as much as I enjoyed putting it together.I am, and will continue to be, a humble student of you all. Un abrazo fuerte ,