Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss: The bestselling lifestyle guide
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Timothy Ferriss’s influential 2007 book The 4-Hour Workweek aims to revolutionise the way we approach our careers and work-life balance. Based on his own experiences, Ferriss claims that anyone can drastically reduce the amount of time they spend on tedious work tasks, boost their income without working extra hours, and find the time to travel the world now instead of waiting for retirement. The 4-Hour Workweek spent four years on the New York Times Best Seller List, and has been translated into 35 languages and sold over a million copies worldwide.
This book review and analysis is perfect for:
• Anyone looking to spend less time working and more time living
• People who want to have the time and money to travel the world
• Anyone who is fed up with their 9-5 routine
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In his bestseller, Timothy Ferriss shares his personal experience to offer, unsurprisingly when you consider the book’s title, a critique of the value of work, when work is equivalent to pain, stress, alienation, etc. In this regard, his vision approximates that of Paul Lafargue (French socialist politician and writer, 1842-1911): progress – technical for Lafargue and technological for Ferriss – is presented positively, because it is used as a tool of liberation: liberation of the workers for Lafargue, personal liberation for Ferriss.
That said, the parallel with Paul Lafargue and his The Right to be Lazy (1880) stops here, as, unlike the son-in-law of Karl Marx, Timothy Ferriss is not an ideologist. He gives no economic or social criticism. For that matter, he offers virtually no criticism at all. Ferriss simply presents his experience and explains how his method, which for him was a guarantee of success, may be extended and adopted – wholly or partly – by others to make life easier while maintaining or even increasing