If you're actually serious about cutting down your work week, check out the book 4 Hour Work Week. It's not perfect, but at least does a good job at entertaining the idea.
The main takeaway from "The Four Hour Workweek" is that if you manage to sell enough copies of a book outlining how to live off a 4 hour work week, then you can live off a 4 hour work week.
I've never read "The Four Hour Work Week" but I always figured that if it was honest, all it would say is "1) write a book about how to only work four hours a week. 2) convince people to buy it. 3) On average, spend four hours a week on this."
Just wondering if the 4 hour work week is actually a good book, I read like the first chapter, I was very disappointed, no in content and very wordy. Does it get better?
That is certainly not what Tim Ferris wrote about in the "4 hour workweek" book, which is what the blog post referred to. The book is quite literally about optimizing your life so that hours worked per week reduces to somewhere very low (four came from an A/B test, as TF explains in one of the first chapters).
I would second the 4-Hour Workweek, yet I am still searching for a profitable idea. How long did it take you from reading the book to reaching the ability to quit your job?
Tim Ferris goes into this, along with a lot of other interesting ideas, in his book "The 4-hour Work Week": http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ The book is entertaining, but be sure to have your reality-check filter turned on.
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