2025-11-19
1 小时 37 分钟Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs.
This is Tim Ferriss.
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show.
This time around, we have a different experimental format featuring the book that started it all for me for our work week.
And even though it was published in 2007, it was one of Amazon's top 10 most highlighted books of all time, last I checked around 2017.
So this is a bit of a foreshadowing of a point I want to make.
A lot of people, readers and listeners ask me what I would change or update in the four-hour workweek or in other books, but especially the four-hour workweek.
An equally interesting question, I think a very compelling question, is what wouldn't I change?
What stands the test of time and hasn't lost any potency?
What would I absolutely not touch?
And perhaps there are a few minor tweaks here and there of a buy-in-large, what has stood the test of time for almost 20 years.
This episode features three timeless chapters from the audiobook of the four-hour workweek, a chapter on taking mini-retirements, which challenges everything about the deferred life plan, the slave save retire approach and shows you how to distribute adventure and retirement throughout life instead of saving it all for the end the chapter titled filling the void which addresses navigating the dizziness of freedom and handling unexpected emotional and philosophical challenges that you can run into, not just after reading the four-hour workweek, but if you're an entrepreneur of any type, really, but especially one following the tenets of lifestyle design.
And last but not least, the 13 mistakes of the new rich, where I outline the most common pitfalls I've seen in people Encounter stumble over when implementing the books principles.
These are all narrated by the great voice actor Ray Porter and if you're 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.
Until the next long form interview, please enjoy.
At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.
Can I answer your personal question?
No, I would have seen it in a perfect time.
What if I could be out of this?
I'm a cybernetic organism living this year over a metal endoskeleton.