the 4 hour work week

Recently, I've made the decision to consider personal development as important as everything else I do in a day. I used to feel guilty, and would not even have books around me during my operating phases, as I sincerely enjoy reading so much. Since a young age, my older sister Stephanie and I spent entire days just reading and writing and drawing. I loved sports, but I loved to read. fantasy, comic books, magazines, whatever. I actually got 100%+ in art class a couple years when I was in high school, and until hearing from one of my idols that he was a loser at art school because he was normal, I had fully intended to head in that direction. In the 7th grade, we had to write short stories, and I handed in a 90+ page novel that I worked on for almost a year. I had sort of assumed that I would always be a writer, but I've literally started about 35+ stories, stopped, looked back, decided they were retarded, then stopped. It's always so much fun for me though, as every character is always the important people in my life, and I write about them, and get to put them into screwed up situations, and try to figure out how they would react. One of the reasons I've always enjoyed studying psychology so much and working to understand why people do things, right down to their childhood experiences.

I'd heard about this book from quite a few people in the last couple years, but I was never attracted to it. I work 80 hours a week, 7 days a week for 6-10 months in a row... what could this book have for me? Well, my bad. The only reason I looked into it was because it was on of Matt Britts top reads, and since I'm trying to follow in his footsteps, it seemed like a good idea to listen to while I was painting away with katrina.

I've currently been ablt to get to chapter 3 on the audio book, and it's fantastic. Timothy Ferris has made a fortune from basically thinking outside the box, and I love his mindset. He won a national kickboxing tournament by pushing opponents out of the ring due to a loophole. For a guy who spent a couple years honing a squat style to just nick parallel, and squat the most weight possible, I can relate to the guy.

And he is just a guy. but a really cool guy who just believes in himself and lets shit happen.

The one I liked the most was to stop asking for permission and start asking for forgiveness.
- If you know me at all... this is pretty much me to a T... except I sometimes have a hard time asking forgiveness... but I'm working on it. He focuses on all of his strengths and doesn't bother with worrying about the details. I'd recommend reading or listening to chapter 2 whenever you have the time.