Currently reading I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi. I know the title sounds gimmicky, like it was written by a used car salesman, but Ramit is LEGIT. I haven’t been so excited while reading a book in a long time. Ramit’s book is based on his blog of the same name, [...]
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a manifesto for the “New Rich”, as the author calls them, “those who abandon the deferred life plan [see my post here] and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.” Tim spends much of the book telling us how [...]
More from Timothy Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek. Tim is pretty averse to the idea of retirement at the end of your life. He calls it the “deferred life plan”, with derision. His alternative is mini-retirements throughout life. I’ll let him explain: If I offered you $10,000,000 to work 24 hours a day for 15 [...]
Timothy Ferriss is the MAN. Just finished The 4-Hour Workweek for the second time. Yes, it’s so good that I read it twice. Tim is a proponent of what he calls Lifestyle Design, which in a nutshell means: Defining the life you want to have Eliminating the excess Automating your moneymaking operations Liberating yourself from [...]
Just finished 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller. The author is a career coach and his book is all about finding your “calling” in life, meaning finding the work God meant for you to do. I found the majority of the book to be not-so-useful generalities such as, “find a good [...]
Another big idea from Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini: Remember, the book is about ways that people successfully get others to do what they want. One of my favorite principles, because once explained it was so clear to me, was what the author calls “social proof”: “It states that one means we [...]
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