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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
Key ideas
- Fear-setting.
- The 80/20 rule.
- Parkinson's law.
- The low-information diet.
- Mini-retirements and mobility.
The week
| Day 1 | Read the summary. Five key ideas and where the book overreaches. |
| Day 2 | Try fear-setting. Pick one change you've been avoiding, and write down the worst realistic outcome, how you'd recover from it, and what putting it off is costing you. Bad day: Write the worst realistic outcome of one change and one way you'd recover. |
| Day 3 | Find your 80/20. List your work tasks or clients and mark the 20 percent that bring most of the results and the 20 percent that cause most of the problems. Bad day: Name the one task that brings the most results and the one that causes the most trouble. |
| Day 4 | Shrink one deadline. Take one task on today's list and give yourself half the time you'd normally allow. Bad day: Set a 10-minute timer for one task you'd usually spend 20 on. |
| Day 5 | Start a low-information week. For the rest of the week, check email only at two set times a day and skip news entirely. Bad day: Turn off email notifications for today. |
| Day 6 | Draft a remote-work proposal. Write a short proposal to work remotely one day a week, or another flexibility you want, even if you don't send it yet. Bad day: Write one sentence describing the flexibility you'd ask for. |
| Day 7 | Plan a mini-retirement. Write a rough plan for one extended break of a few weeks or more within the next two years. Bad day: Write where you'd go and for how long. |
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