The Four Hour Work Week.
Bull?
I don’t know yet.
Don’t know what it is?
Stop now and read about it here.
I’ve read it, and I LOVED it. Simply spectacular. It’s definitely an earth shaking, action inspiring book. It’s great, and there’s not some self-promoting author behind it. The guy believes in what he preaches (or I was ruthlessly fooled, that is).
In short, he believes that you can live a lifestyle that revolves around, outsourcing, automation, travel, fun, learning new skills constantly and working only four hours.
When I heard my cousin from France was coming out to visit, and that he was traveling the world, I thought, “Hey, cool. He’s probably read the four hour work week and is really living it.”
Nope, not at all. I found out that my cousin hasn’t even heard of the book.
So, how has he been able to travel the world for eight months straight, and only work four months?
“Simple,” he said, “For a period of four months I hold three jobs and work 120+ hour weeks. I then travel the world for eight months and do whatever I want.”
Wow. That sounds great. But better yet, it sounds realistic.
The problem that many have had with Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Work Week is, (i) Automation only works for some people, (ii) A lot of jobs are impossible to work from home, (iii) some jobs are great (like a non-profit aimed at helping children with disabilities) who would want to ditch that job when it’s self-fulfilling?
The great part about my French cousin’s philosophy of “work for four months like a work-a-holic, and then travel the world” is that you don’t have to always worry about making money. Whenever you own a business, even automated, it’s on your mind all the time.
So anyways, without any further comments, here’s an interview I conducted with my cousin from France. His name is William Ollivier and you can find his blog here: http://will-o.skyblog.com
The video is really raw, and some parts are really funny (in a cheezy way!), so have fun and check it out:
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