A lot of people tell me that I do a lot of work and get a lot done. I guess it's so. But I'm always looking for ways to function more effectively. Perusing the Amazon bestsellers list a week or two ago, I noticed the book, THE 4 HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss. He's a 30 year old hotshot entrepreneur from Princeton, but he raises some interesting ideas and concepts. It caught my attention because, now that I'm working almost exclusively on the web, I could live just about anywhere.
Here are some excerpts from his book:
Since I'm a quotation junkie, let's start with some quotations he cites:
You have comfort. you don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. it is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.
Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
Many a false step was made by standing still
fortune cookie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
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more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
