The 4-Hour Workweek - Step 4: Liberation

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The 4-Hour Workweek - Step 4: Liberation

Filling the Void

Service

Service is an attitude, not limited to saving lives and the environment

Improve the quality of life in the world

Doing something that improves life besides your own

Continual learning

Sports, hiking, chess, or any activity that is domestic to the country

Languages

It is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less

Adults can learn languages much faster than children

To live is to learn

Life exists to be enjoyed and the most important thing is to feel good about yourself

Most big questions are a complete waste of time

If you can't define it or act on it, forget it

Social isolation

If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Postpartum depression

Go nuts and live your dreams

Disappearing Act

Step 5: Expand remote time

Step 4: Propose a revocable trial period

Step 3: Prepare the quantifiable business benefit

Step 2: Prove increase output offsite

Step 1:Increase investment

The New Rick are defined by unrestricted mobility

Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done

Being bound to one place will be the new defining feature of the middle class

Ask yourself "why not?"

Mini-Retirements

Cut the clutter

What 20% of belongings are used 80% of time?

Sell, donate, store

Clutter creates indecision and distraction

Overcoming excuses not to travel

Arrange a week of language classes upon arrival

Take a trial run for a few weeks

Don't assume that places abroad are more dangerous than your hometown

Financial realities

Long term stay often costs the same as hotels

Take advantage of currency differences

3 month mini-retirement is the alternative to binge traveling

Observe how you judge both youself and those around you

Get lost intentionally

Learn to slow down

Not a one time event--take several per year

Aim to experience the world at a speed that lets it change us

Not an escape from life but a reexamination of it

Extended world travel is not just for the ultrarich

Mexican fisherman story: living a full and busy life

Killing Your Job

Principal phobias

It will ruin my resume

Health insurance and retirement accounts disappear

I won't be able to pay the bills

Quitting is permanent