Timothy Ferriss is out of hand. His concepts on Lifestyle Design: Low-information diet, Mini Retirements, Outsourcing life, “Muse” Marketing are fantastic. My only complaint as a business grad & technocrat were the pieces that reminded me of basic b-school textbook stuff. Our ideal lifestyles are to travel & learn in uninterrupted years at time. To get there Tim explains how to select/develop a product then A/B/C test market with a Google adword placement, attractive sales page and a sprinkle of conversion calculations. Blam you have projected profitability and lt-viability. End goal is to sell your product online while building a completely virtual(outsourced) organizational structure or incubate a tele-work situation. I truly enjoyed the famous relevant quote smatterings added to the enjoyment and impact. Overall feelings of enlightenment, enthusiasm and resolve to get that life long travel dream back on track in an manageable express time frame. Check it out this is not your typical BS book. Welcome to the New Rich - JC (NR)

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist and novelist

Here are some excerpts from the book:

I never enjoyed answering this cocktail question because it reflects an epidemic I was long part of: job descriptions as self-descriptions. If someone asks me now and is anything but absolutely sincere, I explain my lifestyle of mysterious means simply.

“I’m a drug dealer.”

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. Ski chalets, butlers, and exotic travel often enter the picture. Perhaps rubbing cocoa butter on your belly in a hammock while you listen to waves rhythmically lapping against the deck of your thatched-roof bungalow? Sounds nice.

How does a lifelong blue-chip employee escape to travel the world for a month without his boss even noticing? He uses technology to hide the fact.

Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).

I’ve spent the last three years traveling among those who live in worlds currently beyond your imagination. Rather than hating reality, I’ll show you how to bend it to your will. It’s easier than it sounds. My journey from grossly overworked and severely underpaid office worker to member of the NR is at once stranger than fiction and — now that I’ve deciphered the code — simple to duplicate. There is a recipe.

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