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Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by partisan »

fsociety wrote: post #58
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never tried to work less tbf; I'm 31 years old and if I was given more free time, I wouldn't know what to do with it. I'm not the hipster adventurous type, traveling somewhere exotic doesn't appeal to me (I'd be more afraid of getting robbed and scammed), I'm not very social, etc. I prefer my 9-5 life so far. Just bought a house too.

Obviously spend your life however you like, I just want to put it out there that it sounds like you don't like to put yourself outside of your comfort zone (like pretty much everyone, even the hipsters). There is nothing 'hipster' about doing something outside of your normal routine, like travelling or yoga. I'd recommend you try it more often, you'd be pleasantly surprised at what sort of things (good and bad) will…

While I am sure it comes from a good place, I wonder why there is a prescription being given when he states he is happy the way he has it and has no interest in living any other way? Coulent he be genuinely happy with his life and in no need of change?

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by robtaylor »

csallen wrote: post #20

Yvo Schaap, the creator of Directlyrics.com, recently wrote a detailed article on Indie Hackers about how he's been living the 4-hour work week for the past decade: https://www.indiehackers.com/@yvo/how-ive-lived-the-4-hour-w... He created product where the brunt of the work took place in the first few months/years, but the SEO traffic paid dividends for years to come.

"Early in 2010 I made the decision to become fully licensed, which significantly cut into my revenue. MetroLyrics did the same before me, and AZLyrics eventually followed suit."

...is a key two lines to me.

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by mattm »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #41
blueyes wrote: post #38

For a lot of people, 4WW was a "think and grow rich" kind of pressure cooker. Sure, you may be able to do with if you combine the highly marketable skills of being a certain kind of programmer with a low-rent country. Those folks are corner cases. The main beneficiary of the book was Ferriss, who's just selling the dream, like a lot of people in the "information business".

The TL;DR of the book is basically "If you want a 4 hour work week, write a book about achieving a 4 hour work week"

And even that will take more than 4 hours per week.

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by wmboy »

e59d134d wrote: post #77
vbsteven wrote: post #40

I'm not living the 4HWW but that book kickstarted my journey from employee -> full time freelancer -> part time freelancer + working on my own products -> 100% my own products. I'm currently transitioning into the part time freelancing phase.

Why are you transitioning in to freelancing phase? Products business is slowing down?

I believe he(?) was saying '100% my own products' was his end goal, he's not yet there.

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by wmboy »

4hwwperson wrote: post #15

I have lived the 4 hour work week for the last 2 years. I created a course online and earned half a million dollars from it in the first year alone, after spending 3 months creating it (I was 29 when I created it). Many of the ideas from that book (4hww) were ideas that came naturally to me prior to reading that book. I think anyone who considers themselves resourceful (particularly with utilizing Google search) woul…

By definition, science can test and prove natural phenomena by identifying laws of physic etc.

Science is useless in testing or proving supernatural phenomena but that doesn't necessarily mean it can't exist.

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by fefb »

4hwwperson wrote: post #18
fefb wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, was it a video course or some ebook? How did you do the marketing?

I also included a free ebook.

Awesome, thanks for the answer.

It is a great way to make some money for live and launch ideas.

I already read something about courses to sell (video/ebook) in the book called Launch (Jeff Walker).

I am living in a country from Latin America, so I will try something for here. Thanks again. :)

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by FrostAlot »

Not exactly a '4-hour work week' but after reading the book, I have put in a lot of effort into automating a lot of daily recurring browsing activity for which I used to waste time daily. Since I prefer email as the main mode of communication, I have developed automation to extract and send all the important information (for which I used to browse) to me via email daily or hourly. Activities like tech news updates with word cloud, real estate searches, stock prices of interested stocks and many more. This saves me a ton of time by not randomly starting to browse. I attend to only important emails from these email updates.

Re: Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

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Post by vbsteven »

e59d134d wrote: post #77
vbsteven wrote: post #40

I'm not living the 4HWW but that book kickstarted my journey from employee -> full time freelancer -> part time freelancer + working on my own products -> 100% my own products. I'm currently transitioning into the part time freelancing phase.

Why are you transitioning in to freelancing phase? Products business is slowing down?

I'm not there yet, I'm currently transitioning from full time freelance to part-time freelance combined with launching some products of my own.
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