Ali reads Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek at 17, and it sets him on the path to financial freedom
story · status: told 7× · last event: retold (2023-12-20) · owner: Ali
About: The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss, new rich, time freedom
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-11 | told | Ali says The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss tells how to quit your job, set up businesses with automated income that need no physical work, and travel the world. | 3 Books that Changed my Life 00:00:29 |
| 2019-09-24 | told | Reading The 4-Hour Workweek about six or seven years ago gave Ali the bug of making money while you sleep; since then he has been building sources of passive income so that he need not rely on his full-time job as a doctor to make money. | Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 00:07:24 |
| 2021-02-14 | retold | Since reading The 4-Hour Workweek eight years ago, financial independence and passive income have been Ali's north star: through medical school his dream life was one where medicine is optional. | The Book That MOST Changed My Life 00:15:24 |
| 2021-06-13 | mentioned | Ali first came across the idea of multiple streams of income in Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek; looking at the world this way since about the age of 17 let him see many opportunities he might otherwise have missed. | 8 Surprising Habits That Made Me A Millionaire 00:00:29 |
| 2022-02-28 | retold | Ali wishes he had read Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek much earlier, in 2007 when it first came out. | 5 Financial Mistakes I've Made In The Last 10 Years 00:14:24 |
| 2022-04-29 | retold | At 17 Ali pirated his first copy of Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek, the book that most changed his life; he has since supported Ferriss's work through his sponsors and feels less bad about it. | How to Invest as a Teenager 00:05:50 |
| 2023-08-11 | retold | At 17 Ali read Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek, which changed his life: it taught him financial success could come young, joining the "new rich" who value time freedom and independence over money. | If I Wanted to Be a Millionaire Before 30, I'd Do This 00:00:29 |
| 2023-12-20 | retold | Ali says Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek changed his life by exposing him to the idea that he could make passive income with a business that earns while he sleeps and live life on his own terms. | 4 Books That Changed My Life 00:00:58 |
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- 2021-02-14 · The Book That MOST Changed My Life — Ali credits what he learned in The 4-Hour Workweek for getting him to multiple streams of passive income, multiple muses or lifestyle businesses. — 00:15:53
- 2023-12-20 · 4 Books That Changed My Life — Ali: After reading The 4-Hour Workweek, Ali decided to spend his years in medical school building a side business that could generate passive income. — 00:00:58
- 2023-12-20 · 4 Books That Changed My Life — Ali: During medical school Ali learned to code and built a side business that made him around $40,000 to $50,000 a year, about what he would have earned as a full-time doctor. — 00:01:27
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali says The 4-Hour Workweek argues that the life of a rich person, travelling and living on a beach, is available cheaply: a few thousand dollars a month in places like Thailand and Argentina. — 00:01:00
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali says that in The 4-Hour Workweek Tim Ferriss asks why we work to retire in our 60s and suggests mini-retirements instead: each year take a few months off to travel while running your business remotely. — 00:01:29
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — recommendation: Ali says anyone with even a passing interest in entrepreneurship, or intrigued by travelling the world while their businesses make money, should read The 4-Hour Workweek. — 00:01:58
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali says The 4-Hour Workweek pretty much single-handedly let him set up his company SixMed in medical school in 2013: courses for medical school applicants, then an online question bank and online courses. — 00:02:22
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali says SixMed has made six figures in revenue pretty much every year since it started in 2013, with five-figure corporation tax bills. — 00:02:22
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali credits The 4-Hour Workweek's productivity tips, such as outsourcing to remote workers, for running SixMed alongside medicine at Cambridge: they made its question banks successful and protected his mental health. — 00:02:22
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — recommendation: Ali recommends Tim Ferriss's podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, as absolutely wonderful. — 00:03:08
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali read Austin Kleon's small book Show Your Work in about half an hour on Kindle and bought physical copies only to show them in this video. — 00:03:08