Timothy Ferriss

Timothy " Tim " Ferriss ( born July 20, 1977 in East Hampton, New York) is an American author and entrepreneur. His two books The 4- Hour Work Week and The 4 -Hour Body made ​​it into the New York Times bestseller list.

• 3.1 The 4 -Hour Workweek ( The 4-Hour Workweek )
• 3.2 The 4 -Hour Body ( The 4-Hour Body)
• 3.3 The 4-Hour Chef

Life

Timothy Ferriss grew up in East Hampton and graduated from the St. Paul 's School. In 2000 he obtained a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University ( after he had switched from neuroscience, " in an effort cats do not put more cans printer to have "). After completing Ferriss worked in sales at a company for data storage. Ferriss was dissatisfied with the inefficiency and its content, and therefore began to spend his time building his own internet business.

Ferriss holds the world record for the most consecutive tango - spins in one minute. Ferriss and his dance partner Alicia Monti set the record on the show Live with Regis and Kelly. Ferriss claimed that he has won before his writing career in 1999 USAWKF national San Shou Championship in the 165 - pound weight class by pushing his opponent out of the ring and as he had been dehydrated dramatically before weighing and before the fight then re- hydrated to take up several weight classes below its actual weight.

Ferriss lives in San Francisco.

Career

BrainQUICKEN

In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an Internet company for dietary supplements. This set forth a product that was marketed both as BodyQuick as well as BrainQUICKEN. The ingredients were: " Cobalamin, Niacinamide, Folic Acid, 2- dimethylaminoethanol, Pyridoxine HCL, Pantothenic Acid ( Calcium Pantothenate ), Proprietary Cognamine ™ Complex (including components of: Phosphatidylserine, Choline Bitartrate, Vinpocetine, Salix Alba, thioctic acid, L -Tyrosine, Ciwujia ). " It has been claimed that this product could increase short-term memory and the ability to react dramatically, with effect within 60 minutes. In 2010 he sold the company to a venture capital investment company based in London.

" Business Angel " and television

Ferriss is a " business angel " and consultant for startups. Consult or he has invested in startups like StumbleUpon, Posterous, Evernote, DailyBurn, Shopify, ReputationDefender, Trippy, Foodzie, Badongo, Task Rabbit, RescueTime, and SimpleGeo, in addition to small blocks of shares in Facebook and Twitter. In December 2008, Ferriss was in a show on the History Channel, in which he had one week to attempt to learn a skill for which you usually need several years. In the pilot episode he practiced Yabusame, a Japanese form of archery that is exerted on horseback.

The Aspen Institute named Ferriss in March 2009 when Henry Crown Member. In 2012 he was listed in Newsweek 's Digital Power Index 100 as the seventh most influential online personalities. In 2008 he won the " Greatest Self- Promoter of All Time " of Wired Magazine's and was described by Fast Company as one of the "Most Innovative Business People of 2007".

The 4 -Hour Workweek ( The 4-Hour Workweek )

The 4-Hour Workweek was published by Random House in 2007. The book warns against information overload, recommends what Ferriss calls " selective ignorance " and embossed expressions like " Lifestyle Design ". He also advocated, hire a virtual assistant from developing countries like India.

Ferriss marketed the book heavily through bloggers with whom he was friends. Before the publication of the book Ferriss was a stranger. The book finally reached # 1 on both the New York Times as well as on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. There have been sold 1,350,000 copies. On 15 December 2009, Random House The Four -Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated gave out.

The book also spawned a blog of the same name, which is operated by Ferriss. He is one of the Top 1000 blogs on Technorati. In an interview with Fast Company Ferriss claimed that 4HWW is read by many "top tech CEOs in the world".

The 4 -Hour Body ( The 4-Hour Body)

Ferriss ' second book, The 4-Hour Body, was published by Crown on 14 December 2010. The book was an instant best-seller and debuted at # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It previously sold 700,000 copies in North America. Ferriss later appeared both on Dr. Oz as well as a guest on ABC's The View. Among the art pieces that claimed Tim in the book, he explained that he has increased 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks.

In a New York Times review of the self-help book Dwight Garner wrote: "Here's a better analogy: ". The 4-Hour Body " reads as if The New England Journal of Medicine had been hijacked by the editors of the SkyMall catalog Some of this junk Actually might also work, but you're going to be embarrassed doing it or Admitting to your friends did 're trying it. This is a man who, after all, weighs his own feces, likes bloodletting as a life -extension strategy and AIMS a Philips goLITE at his body in place of total caffeine sting. "

The 4-Hour Chef

Ferriss ' third book, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life, was released in November 2012 and is now available on Amazon as a hardcover.

Productivity and teaching

Ferriss is known for the application of both the Pareto principle as well as Parkinson's law in business and personal life. He also believes that technologies such as email, instant messaging and Internet-enabled complicate life more instead of making PDAs easier. His teaching activities fit into what he calls "lifestyle design ". In it, he promotes " mini- rest stands" as an alternative to professional planning of the " deferred life", in which " 5 9 to" job working in one, until you go into his 60s to retire. This includes, as he puts it, " outdated assumptions " to depart and find ways to be more effective, so that the work consumes less time.

On his blog and later in his following books Ferriss applied this approach also to other areas outside the business world. His book on fitness eg claims to offer the training and diet tips to achieve the greatest success with the least amount of effort or time. Ferriss using the analogy of the "minimal effective dose ," to describe this technique. "