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"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge." —Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul

"A new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work? A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it!" —Michael. E. Gerber, founder and chairman of E-Myth Worldwide and author of The Most Successful Small Business in the World

"Sick of the rat race? Tim is the future!" —Tim Colvin, Office of the CTO, Morgan Stanley

Forget the old deferred life plan that has you working hard through the best of years of your life only to retire at the end. There is no need to wait, and every reason not to. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

In this step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design, Tim Ferris explains how he went from working 80 hours per week for $40,000 per year to earning $40,000 per month in just 4 hours per week, allowing him to travel the world and fulfill his dreams—and how you can, too. With more than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content, this expanded edition offers new tools and tricks for living like a millionaire vagabond, even in unpredictable economic times. Added features include templates for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients, plus real case studies from readers who have doubled their income and reinvented themselves by following Tim's revolutionary paradigm.

Index of Contents:

Preface to the Expanded and Updated Edition

First and Foremost

FAQ—Doubters Read This
My Story and Why You Need This Book
Chronology of a Pathology

Step I: D is for Definition

1. Cautions and Comparisons: How to Burn $1,000,000 a Night
2. Rules that Change the Rules: Everything Popular Is Wrong
3. Dodging Bullets: Fear-Setting and Escaping Paralysis
4. System Reset: Being Unreasonable and Unambiguous
Step II: E is for Elimination

5. The End of Time Management: Illusions and Italians
6. The Low-Information Diet: Cultivating Selective Ignorance
7. Interrupting Interruption and the Art of Refusal

Step III: A is for Automation

8. Outsourcing Life: Offloading the Rest and a Taste of the Geoarbitrage
9. Income Autopilot I: Finding the Muse
10. Income Autopilot II: Testing the Muse
11. Income Autopilot III: MBA—Management by Absence

Step IV: L is for Liberation

12. Disappearing Act: How to Escape the Office
13. Beyond Repair: Killing Your Job
14. Mini-Retirements: Embracing the Mobile Lifestyle
15. Filling the Void: Adding Life after Subtracting Work
16. The Top 13 New Rich Mistakes

The Last Chapter: An Email You Need To Read

Last but Not Least

The Best of the Blog
Proposal to Work Remotely on a Contract Basis
Living the 4-Hour Workweek: Case Studies, Tips, and Hacks
Restricted Reading: The Few that Matter
Bonus Material

About the Author: TIM FERRISS received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 2000. Nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” he runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide and is a regular lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.