| About: The 4-Hour Workweek is a self help book with a semi-autobiographical narration and has been written by an American writer Timothy Ferriss who is an entrepreneur and academics activist. It was published in 2007. The book explains the ways in which a person could have a life automated but with simplicity. The writer used the acronym DEAL in the entire book, where D stands for definition, which means to sort out what a person actually requires, his expectations, and the hindrances in accomplishing the objective. E stands for Elimination in stance of time management. The author promotes eliminating all the non-effective tasks and give 100% of your effort to the tasks that are going to benefit the most. The books also talks about technology in terms of automated income source like Google Adsense, outsourcing etc. Last is the L, which means liberation. Liberation - meaning creating an automated lifestyle so you can travel and not be bound to a geographical location. The author is donating 10% of royalties to charities of educational institutions. |
