The 4-Hour Workweek" Quiz

The 4-Hour Workweek: Unconventional Rules for Lifestyle Design

• The new rich prioritize time and mobility over traditional measures of wealth.
• Lifestyle Design is both an art and a science that involves negotiating reality to achieve desired outcomes.
• The manifesto of a dealmaker involves recognizing that reality is negotiable and outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken without being unethical.
• Lifestyle Design has three fundamental ingredients: Time, Income, and Mobility.
• To start designing your lifestyle, redefine your priorities and goals.
• Retirement planning should be viewed as nothing but a hedge against worst-case scenarios, not a goal.
• The New Rich aim to distribute "mini-retirements" throughout their lives instead of hoarding recovery and enjoyment for a hypothetical pot of gold.
• Culture tends to reward sacrifice over personal productivity, so focus on being productive instead of being busy.
• Waiting for the perfect timing is a fallacy; conditions are never perfect.
• If it is important to you, do it now and correct the course as you go.
• People will always deny things on an emotional basis that they get to accept after the fact, so ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
• Focus on leveraging your strengths instead of trying to fix all your weaknesses.