Ming’s Wisdom

It’s been two weeks since the last time I’ve written, so what have I been up to in this time? I’ve been reading The 4-hour Workweek. It’s quickly become my favorite book of all time. I feel that the focus of the book is not solely on reducing the amount of work you do, instead this book is a philosophy to live by in order to become more effective in life, in a fun way. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to become very successful in any aspect of life. If you’ve ever wondered why some people are so gifted, and are always more successful at school without much studying, can have more friends than people you’ve met in your life, run a huge corporation while still having time to hang out on the weekends, this book explains exactly how it’s done.

Some examples of techniques described in the book:

• 95% of what you’re doing currently probably doesn’t contribute to your ultimate goals, so stop doing them
• you have more stuff than you need (every one of you). they take up valuable time and mind-space, so get rid of them
• do enough to get the results you need, and stop stressing about the diminishing returns that require 5x the effort
• time is a measurement of wealth just as important as money
• giving others the power to make decisions, so that you don’t need to waste time making them

Many of the ideas introduced take much more involved explanation that I won’t go into here. I felt that some of the concepts have really shown me a new way of thinking. I recommend that everyone read the book and at least give its ideas a chance, and possibility get much more in return.

Let me know if you read it and what you thought of it!