I’m not much into self-help books.
But many people I admire follow Tim Ferriss. I finally got around to starting his classic book …
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
The evangelizing rah-rah turns me off … as does the focus on money while claiming not to care about money.
On the other hand, Ferriss does have some very good ideas. For example:
- take more and longer vacations while young enough to enjoy them
- work from inexpensive foreign nations, if you can, while earning hard currency
- focus on strengths, instead of trying to fix weaknesses
- Rid Yourself of Material Possessions
- Sometimes Less Is More
Here’s my buddy Josh. He’s a digital nomad working online from a series of inexpensive nations — most recently Guatemala, Nepal and Vietnam.
related – my own philosophy of Voluntary Simplicity
