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🗓️ 13 February 2025
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This time around, we have a bit of a different format, featuring the book that started it all for me, The 4-Hour Workweek. Readers and listeners often ask me what I would change or update, but an equally interesting question is: what wouldn’t I change? What stands the test of time and hasn’t lost any potency? This episode features one of the most important chapters from the audiobook of The 4-Hour Workweek. It includes tools and frameworks that I use to this day, including Pareto’s Law and Parkinson’s Law.
The chapter is narrated by the great voice actor Ray Porter. If you are interested in checking out the rest of the audiobook, which is produced and copyrighted by Blackstone Publishing, you can find it on Audible, Apple, Google, Spotify, Downpour.com, or wherever you find your favorite audiobooks.
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0:00.0 | Well, hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the |
0:04.6 | Tim Ferriss show. If you want the long-form, deconstructing world-class performers interviews, |
0:10.7 | then you can pick one of the other 800 episodes or so that I have done. But this time around, |
0:15.1 | you know I like to experiment. We have a different format featuring the book that started it all for |
0:20.1 | me, the four-hour work week. |
0:21.9 | And even though it was published in 2007, back when I had hair, it was one of Amazon's top |
0:27.6 | 10 most highlighted books of all time. Last time I checked in 2017, and there were actually |
0:33.0 | two of my books on that list. The four-hour body was the second. But back to the topic at hand, |
0:39.4 | readers and listeners often ask me, what would you change? What would you update? But an equally |
0:44.8 | interesting question is, what wouldn't I change? What has stood the test of time? What hasn't |
0:50.6 | lost any potency? What do I still personally use? And this episode features one of the |
0:56.1 | most important chapters from the four-hour work week. It includes tools and frameworks that I use |
1:01.9 | to this day, including Pareto's Law, Parkinson's Law, and many other fine details. It is called |
1:07.5 | the end of time management. It is narrated by the great voice actor Ray Porter. |
1:13.2 | And if you are interested in checking out the rest of the audiobook, which is produced |
1:16.3 | and copyrighted by Blackstone Publishing, you can find it on Audible, Apple, Google, Spotify, |
1:21.4 | Downpour.com, or wherever you find your favorite audiobooks. |
1:25.4 | But first, a few quick words from the fine sponsors who make this |
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