Inspirational Quotes: The Four Hour Work Week [Organize IT]

Last week I finally bought The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. Like Getting Things Done it has something of a cult following. Though I’m only a quarter of the way through I’m already seeing some intriguing ideas that I will no doubt be discussing in the near future. In the meantime I’ve collated a selection of quotes from the book to give you an idea of what it’s all about.

Tim Ferriss: “Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.”

Herbert Simon: “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Tim Ferriss: “What we fear doing is most usually what we need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.”

Dave Barry: “Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

Tim Ferriss: “It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre.”

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Original post here: James

22 June 2008 | 10348 | Comments

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