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.

Dreamlining, Elimination, and the 80/20 Rule for Effective Productivity

• Happiness is achieved through excitement, which requires pursuing what is most exciting to you.
• Adult-Onset ADD can manifest as Adventure Deficit Disorder, causing a lack of fulfillment in work and life.
• Dreamlining is a process that involves defining unrealistic goals and activities to fill the void created by work.
• To determine your dreams, ask yourself what you would do if you could not fail and were 10 times smarter than others.
• Being uncomfortable is necessary for personal growth, and training yourself to propose solutions and be assertive is key.
• Elimination is more important than accumulation, and simplicity is the height of cultivation.
• Time management should be replaced with prioritization, as being efficient without effectiveness is futile.
• Pareto's Law, or the 80/20 rule, states that 80% of output comes from 20% of inputs, and can be applied to increase productivity.
• To apply the 80/20 rule, determine the sources causing 80% of unhappiness and problems, and focus on the sources resulting in desired outcomes and happiness.
• Applying the 80/20 rule requires being honest with oneself and potentially facing uncomfortable truths.
• Effectiveness, or doing things that bring you closer to goals, is more important than efficiency, or doing things well regardless of importance.
• Being assertive and proposing solutions is necessary for personal growth and achieving dreams.