First, yes you can have a 4 hour workweek. It’s all how you set it up!  

The funny thing about this conversation between Tim Ferris and Donny Deutsch is that it really didn’t get to the point. Both realities from Tim and Donny were true. It’s not that one is right and the other is wrong, or that Tim’s any smarter than Donny, for only working "4 hours" a week (which I don’t think is true a good portion of the time, especially now that there’s a book in play that’s changing the world), or that Donny is smarter than Tim for working 70.

Tim’s learned how to set his lifestyle up so that he can be mobile and balanced. Tim has a unique business. It’s a fully automated product business (I believe its nutritional supplements) and he’s leveraged outside service providers to enable him to get free of his business’s day to day grind. A bunch of other saps, NOT living a 4-hour work week are doing all the work. And honestly, it took Tim Ferris more than 4 hours a week to set it all up. So you have to keep this in mind.

Is it a multi-bullion dollar company? No. It’s an automated business selling stuff. Yes. Donny’s not doing that, he’s running a multi billion dollar ad agency and a TV show and that takes more than 4 hours per week run that kind of business.

Is Tim’s core business changing the world? No. But I can tell you writing the 4 Hour Work Week, which is changing the world, and doing media takes more than 4 hours per week. But he says that in the book! And I paraphrase…if you’re going to change the world, it will likely take you more than 4 hours per week.

Tim’s talking about creating businesses that sell stuff that you can fully automate to free up space and time to experiment with living your life the way you want. And, you can apply these principles whether you work only 4 hours per week or not, to simply live a better quality life.

Most people wouldn’t know what to do with the other 56 or so hours a week. It would fill up quickly; with other life and business pursuits as Donny talked about. But I don’t think that’s the point of the Four Hour Work Week book, or Tim’s pure and powerful message. He’s showing people how to experiment with a better lifestyle design leveraging a certain kind of business model.

Streamlining and Simplifying is a big part of a Performance Lifestyle that works for you AND the achievement of your goals. But the objective is to free up as much space and time as you need, to take care of yourself at the level you need, perform at your best and have the quality of life you want.

If you want to work 60-hours a week and you love it, Rock and Roll! There’s nothing wrong with that. 

Everyone’s life and lifestyle is going to be different and only a certain number of people are going to be successful or even able to realize a “4-hour” workweek let alone something close to that. After all, who’s going to be left to support your 4-hour workweek if everyone’s working a 4 hour work week? Eventually we’d all have to say "*&^%$#-" it, I’m not working!

I personally don’t think I’ll ever work only 4 hours per week, or that I have a business where that’s even possible. But the idea has gotten me to think differently, and I’m already minded this way. I’m taking my Performance lifestyle design to new levels!

After all that’s what Healthy High Achievers do.