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
