#28 in Self-help
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The 4-Hour Workweek” argues against postponing life until retirement and offers a confident toolkit for cutting work down to what matters. Ferriss calls this lifestyle design. Readers who rate the book highly evidently value the permission it gives to question long hours as a default. Some object that the freedom on offer is largely self-serving, with business ideas that add little for anyone else. A provocation for readers rethinking how they work.
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About the book
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a self-help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur. It deals with what Ferriss refers to as "lifestyle design", and repudiates the traditional "deferred" life plan in which people work grueling hours and take few vacations for decades and save money in order to relax after retirement. The book spent four years on The New York Times Best Seller List, was translated into 40 languages, and sold around 2.1 million copies.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 676 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 82% of the weight and the score stays at 7.3 — the Self-help average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 97 | 14% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 13 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 566 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is The 4-Hour Workweek?
It has 400 pages — longer than 76% of the ranked books in Self-help.
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