EightyOut and The Four Hour Work Week
My friend Ken over at GhostDogAlpha has a new podcasting productivity project : EightyOut.com
It’s a blog, it’s a podcast, it can leap tall buildings in a single bound, it’s.. well, ok, I might be overselling it a bit.
Still, it promises to develop into something pretty cool. EightyOut will chronicle my very own webguru’s “lifestyle redesign” based on the current blogosphere-buzz-book, The 4-Hour Workweek
The idea is to get more benefit out of your effort, while putting less actual effort in (a variation on the 80/20 rule-of-the-universe). The attitude changes suggested by author Tim Ferriss amount to a set of pretty effective mind tweaks. I haven’t read the book yet, but some of the keys seem to be learning to outsource the stuff you aren’t good at (and never wanted to do anyway) as well as how to enjoy yourself *now* rather than postponing the good parts of life ’til some vague and mythical “retirement” date.
I’m especially interested in the EightyOut take on the subject; Ken’s brain works very differently than mine in some ways, but we both get stuck in similar inner-conflict loops when making choices about where/when to invest our energy.
So check it out!
MindTweak: Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing…
-Timothy Ferriss
