#889: Q&A with Tim — How to Get Unstuck, Resilience in Hard Times, Tools for Brain Health, Finding Inner Peace, Optimism as a Learnable Skill, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2026
“I've been a big fan since the four hour work week”
#887: Q&A with Tim — The 4-Hour Workweek in a World of AI, Rebuilding Personal Agency, The 4-Hour Body After 40, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2026
“Some of you will be familiar with the first book. Twentieth anniversary is coming up. in April of twenty twenty seven. And Here is my answer. Because I have been asked this in private settings and I've thought about it a fair amount. The book structure. Is laid out. As a four step process”
How to Scale Your Business to 7-8+ Figures with Laser-Targeted 3D YouTube Ads with Aleric Heck: An EOFire Classic from 2022
Entrepreneurs on Fire · Apr 2026
“it was actually, it wasn't the four-hour work week. All of a sudden, it was the hour work week, which, you know, I'm sure uh I'm sure you know that was originally was meant to be the title of the book”
1286: Derek Coburn | Rethinking Retirement to Live Well Now and Later
The Jordan Harbinger Show · Feb 2026
“I think that maybe what first got me on this train, this thought process for the types of conversations that I wanted to be having with my clients was when I read The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris”
#823: Dr. Jeffrey Goldberg — Creating Supranormal Vision, Cutting-Edge Science for Eye Health, Supplements, Red Light Therapy, and The Future of Eyesight Restoration
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2025
“If I were to update the four hour work week. Which I get asked to do a lot. I would really only add one thing, and that is a section on AI tools”
#822: The Random Show — Ketones for Cognition, Tim’s Best Lab Results in 10+ Years, How Kevin Hit 100 Days Sober, Home Defense, Vibe Coding Unleashed, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2025
“So four hour work, I don't even know if you know this, so four hour work week, four hour, four chef. I would do most of my writing late at night”
#767: Jerry Colonna — Tim and Uncle Jerry Tackle Life, Big Questions, Business, Parenting, and Disco Duck
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2024
“Is there anything that you have repeated or shared that to you is the equivalent of the four hour work week in terms of being the blessing and the curse that you just can't seem to shake”
A Masterclass On Hiring A CEO To Run Your Company ft. Andrew Wilkinson
My First Million · May 2024
“I'll never forget when I was reading four hour work week, Tim Ferris had this whole thing about Anything less than five thousand dollars does not require my opinion”
Tim Ferriss Opens Up: What I Do In A Day, Unfair Advantages & The "Barbell Strategy"
My First Million · Apr 2024
“You're gonna read this and then for four hours you're gonna question everything in your life. I call that the four hour fever. It's normal, don't worry, call a doctor fake last beyond four hours ... They're called the four work week”
Tim Ferriss - Curating Curiosities - [Invest Like the Best, EP.369]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Apr 2024
“I mean he's responsible for My first book four hour work week in the sense that he invited me to come back to speak to The class, high tech entrepreneurship”
#713: Matt Mullenweg — The Art of Crafting a Sabbatical, Tips for Defending Against Hackers, Leveraging Open Source, Thriving in an AI World, and Tips for Life’s Darkest Hours
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
“a primary value of which is you establish systems and stress test systems and processes that outlive the sabbatical. They persist. Is this something you guys have”
#702: Morgan Housel — Contrarian Money and Writing Advice, Three Simple Goals to Guide Your Life, Journaling Prompts, Choosing the Right Game to Play, Must-Read Books, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2023
“before your podcast started, would you have Shaking your head in disbelief. At the idea that you didn't abandon writing ... still to this day, and I would say a third. Probably almost all of the Tools. referenced in the four hour work week are out of date”
#687: Justin Gary — Taking the Path Less Traveled, The Phenomenon of “Magic: The Gathering,” How Analytical People Can Become “Creative” People, Finding the Third Right Answer, and How to Escape Your Need for Control
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
“And then I have the opportunity to speak to the executive team. I'm gonna make my presentation and make my case. Is this project gonna live or is this project gonna die? And I'm just some kid who wants to make a game and I've got to convince. So I'm there and I will never forget. I mean I'm they had this like ugly green carpet. I'm sitting waiting for my turn to get called in. It just I don't the details are super stuck in my mind. And I'm like, you know, go down this long corridor and”
#668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life”
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2023
“I saw a guy reading Four Hour Work Week. I said, Hey Great book”
#660: Dr. Andrew Huberman — The Foundations of Physical and Mental Performance, Core Supplements, Sexual Health and Fertility, Sleep Optimization, Psychedelics, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
“was based on principles from the four hour work week”
#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More
“So like uh Tim Ferris' truth was basically that like The nine to five work in a cubicle for forty years model. is like effing broken and you don't need to do it that way. Like you could work four hours a week and live like a millionaire”
#645: The Random Show, Mega-Holiday Edition — 2023 Resolutions and New Tools, Extensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternatives, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2022
“I remember I came to your house and I remembered just walking at some point to hang out. I didn't know you that well. And it's just like you walked on this aisle of kettlebells. It was like the hall of kettlebells. Yeah. And then there's like Japanese armor and like weird saddles and shit. Maybe the saddles were later, I think. Saddles were a few years later, yeah. Yeah, and then there was like books all over the place with all these little note things in them, and I'm just like, This ”
#624: Rolf Potts — The Vagabond’s Way, Tactics for Immersive Travel, Pilgrimages and Psychogeography, Empathy Machines, Full-Throated Love, The Slow Sense of Smell, Lessons from Thích Nhất Hạnh, Falling Upward, and More
#614: Q&A with Tim on Wealth and Money, Book Recommendations, Advice on Taking Advice, C.S. Lewis, Relationships, Behavior Change and Self-Awareness, Why We Are All (Mostly) Making It Up as We Go, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2022
“to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Four hour workweek, which was first published on April 24th, Two thousand seven”
Pieter Levels: Making $2.7M A Year With No Employees
My First Million · Jul 2022
“Tim Ferris's truth was basically that like The nine to five. Work in a cubicle for forty years model. is like effing broken and you don't need to do it that way. Like you could work four hours a week and live like a millionaire. And so that was like Tim Ferris' red pill”
#557: Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
“and many of the updates that I would have put into the four hour work week”
#538: How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2021
“Flashing back to the four hour work week. For our work week was this huge unexpected hit”
#518: Q&A with Tim — Current Morning and Exercise Routines, Holotropic Breathwork, Ambition vs. Self-Compassion, Daily Practices for Joy, Ontological Shock, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
“and some form of dreamlining is outlined in the four hour work week”
#506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2021
“this is not unusual for your audience. But I think that the Perhaps somewhat novel is connecting this to ideological independence”
“And I think one of the things I took from the four hour work week and that I I've gotten from you regularly is you tend to think more about like quality of life right now”
#407: Sam Zell — Strategies for High-Stakes Investing and Dealmaking
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2020
“It came about because I was doing a revision of the four hour work week for 2009, looking at new software solutions that could help people, help my readers”
#385: The World's Largest Psychedelic Research Center
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2019
“Mr. Ferris has authored five number one New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling books, including The Four Hour Work Week and Tools of Titans”
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