Author brags about ‘4-Hour Workweek’

Timothy Ferriss has an interesting philosophy about productivity. In his new book, the entrepreneur shares his blueprint for the “4-Hour Workweek,” a concept that seems, to say the least, very far-fetched. Yet Ferriss does, indeed, convince us that anyone can earn $10,000 a day by doing almost nothing, and that fewer hours equals higher output. Not all of his ideas are agreeable, but Ferriss doesn’t expect you to follow all his suggestions. He wants us to think outside of the bubble. Yes, he’s out of his mind — but that’s exactly why his book, after only a few weeks out on the shelves, is already a bestseller.

Crazy for change

In a very insightful article in Ode magazine, Anita Roddick writes:

“Revolutionaries, activists and change-makers of every stripe — just like entrepreneurs — lead because they cannot follow something with which they do not agree or which limits their imaginations. They change the world because their passion and conviction won’t allow them not to.”

Roddick precisely articulates what I’ve always believed. I agree with her, too, when she says that change “requires a willingness to be perceived as crazy.” Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg and even the fictitious movie character Jerry Maguire — these people all, at some point, were considered insane.

And where would they be today if they had listened to the naysayers?