Recommended Reading

Ken’s book, The Element, offers a critical point of view on standardized education its negative effect on creativity. He illustrates the stifling effect that conventional education systems have on creativity and suggests that a great transformation needs to be made.

“The key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”

- Ken Robinson, The Element (p.238)

Tim Ferriss is the king of entrepreneurs. He has amassed an incredibly diverse and respectable resume, including being welcomed guest lecturer at Princeton University, a speaker of 5 languages, and a Financial and Entrepreneuriship adviser at Singularity University at NASA Ames. Tim is also a known Chinese kickboxing champion and holds a world record in the Tango. If you didn’t know that was possible, leave it to Tim to make it possible. He is regarded by many business resources as being the world’s most innovative self-promoter, and he has achieved such a title through a combination of rigorous introspection as well as a brain that is finely tuned for business opportunities.

After reading The 4-Hour Workweek, I immediately knew that I wanted to make some changes in my life. I have only just begun to experiment with the ideals of “lifestyle design” and becoming a member of the NR (New Rich), and I can already feel the weight of the world being lifted off of my shoulders. I wake up with a clearer head and more incentive to succeed than I have ever had before. If you are at all questioning whether you want to do what you’re doing right now for the rest of your life, I would highly recommend reading this book. You might learn something about yourself that you never thought you knew.