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This is how today's society thinks your life should look. You have go to school for the

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Then you have to find a high paying job that you'll work for the next 40 years.

And after that, you can retire and finally enjoy your life for the last 20 years.

If you're lucky to live that long of course. This is basically the life plan.

Work hard now, so that someday in the future you can kick back, relax and enjoy when you

have the money. The 40 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.

Not at all. Today we're going to challenge this notion by summarizing one of my favorite books.

The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. I would recommend this book to anyone with aspirations

to have more freedom in their life. Many people think that the point of this book is to work

just four hours per week, sit on the beach and sip pina coladas.

Well that's not really the end goal, because you'd get so bored doing that.

There's only so many you can drink before you want to do some type of work again. This

book is about working smarter and not harder.

It's telling us that we can accomplish a lot more if we manage our time more effectively. Although,

if you're doing something you're truly passionate about, you're inevitably going to work hard anyways.

In fact, probably much harder than you would working a job you don't care about.﻿ So the

real objective of this book is to help you avoid doing what you dislike, and to also

have the freedom to pursue your dreams. So let's first talk about retirement and why

it sucks. If you're currently working a 9-5 job in exchange for occasionally relaxing

weekends, you might think that retirement is the end goal.

A light at the end of the tunnel, as you finally have the freedom to enjoy yourself. However

relying on retirement should be nothing more than the absolute worst case scenario.

If you think it's going to be great when you retire, then I have to tell you something

right now; it's not going to be great, your current job straight up sucks and you're wasting

the best years of your life. I mean, who the hell wants to wait until he's an old man,

before he starts living life on his own terms? Let me add that over 50% of people, over the age

So those last 20 years of your life, are basically a coin flip.

You're not really free if you're old, sick and fragile. A good question to ask yourself

is this: What would you do if retirement wasn't an option?

How do your priorities change? It really makes you think. Do you keep working at a shitty

You'll have to find the answer to that question yourself. Another problem with retirement is

that one week into it, you'll be so damn bored.

Suddenly you have 8 extra hours in a day, but nothing to fill this empty void.

You'll probably want to look for a new job or start a company.

Which kind of defeats the whole purpose of waiting, doesn't it? I'm not saying don't plan

But don't mistake retirement for the end-goal.

This next concept changed the way on how I view money.

I found out that a dollar, can sometimes be worth more than just a dollar.

Let me explain what I mean by looking at this fifth grade math problem. This is Jane.

Jane makes 100,000 dollars a year. And this is Mike. He makes 50,000 dollars a year.

This clearly makes Jane twice as rich as Mike.

However this is only measured in yearly or absolute income.

Now let's take a look at this from a relative income standpoint. Jane makes 100,000 dollars

a year and works about 50 weeks per year, which means she makes 2,000 dollars a week.

Due to her demanding job, she also works 80 hours per week.

If we do some quick math, we learn that Jane earns 25 dollars an hour.

Not bad. Mike makes 50,000 dollars a year and he also works 50 weeks per year, which means

This means Mike makes 50 dollars an hour and, in relative income, he's actually 2 times

richer than Jane. But it gets even more interesting.

Jane works in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in America.

Her cost of living there is around 80,000 dollars per year, which means she doesn't

But she also can't leave the city, because she has to be physically present there, to

do her job. However Mike makes his money online.

And he chose to live in Thailand, where his cost of living is about 15,000 dollars per

year. This makes Mike in relative income, even richer.

He has complete freedom to choose when, where and how to live. When we look at yearly or

absolute income, Jane is richer than Mike. But that's because absolute income doesn't take

It's just a raw number of how much someone makes per year. In relative income however,

we look at the money earned per hour and how much freedom someone has.

By freedom I mean; controlling what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with

whom you do it. So in this case, 50,000 dollars per year, is worth more than 100,000 dollars

This is what I meant when I said that a dollar is sometimes worth more than a dollar. Sure,

Jane has more yearly income than Mike, but who has it better, really? Another important

idea in this book is to avoid work for work's sake. Some people are really good at being busy.

They shuffle papers and check email all day long.

When you meet them on a Friday night, they're so proud of it as well.

They say: "I worked 70 hours this week! Hmp!",

just to make themselves feel like they've accomplished more than the other person.﻿

And yet they seem to get nothing important done.

They are busy and even efficient, but they're busy with the wrong things. You don't want

to be like them. A lot of people work at a job where they could finish their work in

But because their employer thinks they have to work for 8 hours, a completely arbitrary

number, they become extremely good at deceiving themselves and others that they are productive.

Otherwise they could get fired from their job or wouldn't get paid.

And the same problem applies to self-employed people.

Instead of doing 4 hours of quality work, they're busy for 8 hours, but accomplish the

same amount. In today's world, doing less is considered laziness. But that's simply not

true. Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater importance,

This is hard for most to accept, because our culture praises being busy, instead of being

productive. In the book Tim talks about efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency is performing

a given task, whether important or not, in the best way possible. Effectiveness is doing

the right things, which get you closer to your goals. For example: The best door-to-door

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