Tim Ferriss on Spreading an idea

• How blogs helped Tim Ferriss become a best seller – A Mixergy interview about how Tim Ferriss learned from others and techniques that could be replicated
• How does a best seller happen? – Tim talks about he went from 0 to Wall Street Journal Bestseller. In particular it was interesting how he got in contact with the experts in the field and asked not only what to do but also what not to waste time on – he found that book signings is a definite no-no
• Micro persuasion behind a meme – looking at some interesting statistics of the growth in Tim Ferriss related posts and some key things to take out of it
• Problogger interviews Tim Ferriss – great interview covering some of the ‘offline’ techniques Tim Ferriss used to get featured on the top blogs and get to know influential bloggers. Also encourages you to see a blog as just a tool amongst others

Accelerated Learning

• Learning something in a short space of time – Brief discussion on Zen Habits about how Tim Ferriss learns so much in such a short space of time. Interesting in particular is how you should not overrate how difficult something is
• Accelerated Language Learning – David Betz’ take on accelerated learning from the four-hour-work-week and how you should first deconstruct something before attempting to learn it
• Hanselminutes – following on from the above the interview discusses focusing on what is important to become a world-class expert on many topics and finding the point of diminishing return so you are not wasting effort
• How to learn a language in 3 months – From the 4HWW blog on how to learn languages effectively. Useful insight into accelerated learning

4HWW Promotion

• On I Will Teach You To Be Rich – Some shameless promotion of the book with a competition to win a round-the-world ticket
• Lifehacker.org interview Tim Ferriss
• Leo Babauta interviews Tim Ferriss

Videos

3 main things to take away from this: if you fear something then it is probably something worth doing, there is a much more effective way to swim and always ask: “what is the worse that could happen?” I also like Steve Pavlinas take on this question: Hey, if it’s not going to land me in jail, how bad could it be?”

Unfortunately I could not find a full copy of the Trial By Fire show. Though you can purchase it from the History Channel.

Ramit and Tim discuss the importance of failure for success. Ramit talks about his list of failures and if his list is not growing by 2-3 items a month then something is not right. Tim discusses how if you can learn something from failure then it is not a complete failure.

Kevin from Diggnation and Tim discuss Angel investing

Four Hour Workweek fundamentals

• Derek Sivers Interview – interview discussing some of the key ideas to come out of the 4HWW. Talking in particular about test driving and experimenting with your processes to improve them
• Diary of a self help dropout – humorous take on GTD vs Four Hour Work Week

Miscellaneous

• Adding Tabs to your blog just like the four hour workweek blog – discussion from the guy that redesigned the 4HWW blog
• View the previous iterations of Tim Ferriss homepage – right back to the post that says no blog writing for 6 to 10 months to focus on writing the book
• Speed reading – How to read 300% faster in 20 minutes
• Tim Ferriss criticism – Its not all Ferriss lovin’

If you like the 4HWW content you may also enjoy these reads:

• Conceptual Toolmaking: expert systems of the mind – often Tim Ferriss describes his strength as deconstructing or breaking down something to learn it more effectively. Some of the conceptual mapping techniques in this book come close to what he discusses
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It – one of the recommended reads in Tim Ferriss book which talks about how 3 perspectives exist within an entrepreneur and how you have to harness all 3. Also like the discussion on building in a business a predictable system that can be replicated
• Zorba the Greek – This one is a bit out there but it is recommend in one of Tim Ferriss blog posts. Zorba reminds us of the simple pleasures in life and how we should enjoy each moment  (I prefer the UK version of the cover I think it captures Zorba much better)

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All of which is to fit in a 35 litre bag!

• Board of Canada
  Tracks: Constants Are Changing, Sherbert Head, Slow This Bird Down etc
  Album: The Campfire Headphase
  Reason: Very chilled out, can play in background without noticing
• Portishead
  Tracks: Strangers, Sour Times, Pedestral
  Album: Dummy
  Reason: Like the big room feel to it and the trip hop genre in general
• Cinematic Orchestra
  Tracks: The awakening of a woman
  Album: Cinematic Orchestra
  Reason: So cinematic, plays in the background without realising
• Moby
  Tracks: Down Slow, Run On, The Sky Is Broken
  Album: Play
• Elbow
  Tracks: I’ve got your number, Buttons and Zips
  Album: A cast of Thousands
• Thievery Corporation
  Tracks: Marching The Hate Machines, The Cosmic Game, A Gentle Dissolve
  Album: The Cosmic Game

Obviously some people will look through the list and think awesome this guy knows his stuff, others will think who the hell are they? and some of you will head off and download some of the tracks and find that it works for you. Zen Habits also suggests a good tranquil music list.

If your a music person then post your favourite tracks for relaxing in the comments.