Changing the World on Four Hours a Week?
July 7th, 2007 | Published in Personal, Productivity
Productivity expert and jet-setter extraordinaire Tim Ferriss has a proposition for you. Work four hours a week, he says, and you’ll find that you can become wealthy while still having time to do all the things you want to do.
Ferriss emphasizes the idea that (i) reducing information overload and (ii) outsourcing tasks, combined with (iii) remaining-results oriented will result in a tremendously liberating situation where the practicing individual has copious free time on a weekly basis in which they are free to travel the world, or even have multiple, parallel mini-careers. This sounds excellent, and I was enraptured by the notion at first (as were, seemingly, the millions who have firmly planted FHWW on the New York Times best-sellers list). I was especially turned on by the inspiring presentation Ferriss gave with Marci Alboher for Authors@Google.
Shortly, though, I became aware of an insidious side-effect of this kind of workload reduction, which was initially veiled by my selfishness and my entrepreneurial sympathies.
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