Timothy Ferriss
Author of the #1 Bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss is the author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek— the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller. An entrepreneur and angel investor (Twitter, StumbleUpon), he was nominated as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Business People.-TED
Running a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, Tim Ferriss is an active educational activist who has designed social media campaigns such as LitLiberation, which out-fundraised traditional sources at zero cost, helped build schools overseas and financed more than 15,000 US students. Since his first 4-Hour Workweek keynote in 2007, he has been invited to speak at Google, Harvard Business School, Facebook, the CIA, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and social change.
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How to Get Twice as Much Done in Half the Time
How you can live more, while working less—without a downgrade in quality to either. In this talk, Tim Ferriss offers a manifesto on restructuring your life, both at work and at home. Touching on quality-of-life and work-life balance, he helps you overcome external and internal blocks that stand in the way of reaching your true potential. How can you eliminate 50% of your redundant workload in just 48 hours? How do you cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low information diet? How do you work smarter, more effectively, and how can you reach out and grab the ideal life that is within your reach? Whether you're a Fortune 100 CEO or a so-called wage slave, you can have it all. Ferriss shows you how.
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How to Create a Global Phenomenon Using Social Media
How do you create a global phenomenon with a team of one person and a budget of less than $10,000? Ferriss delivers a trademark high energy talk, complete with tips from major projects.
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