Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show.

Oh, hi-ho-go-a-soim. I am recording this from my hotel room in Tokyo, Japan, where I am in

Jingu Mai, and headed on the road yet again for some more adventures, and then back to the U.S.

And when I'm doing this, aside from keeping in mind things like the mini-retirement

and setting up systems that persist beyond your return to your home, there are many

tools that I still use to this day from the book that started it all, the four-hour work week.

Came out in 2007, was revised in 2009, and yet it was one of Amazon's top 10 most highlighted

books of all time. Last time I checked in 2017, and what that means is many of the principles,

many of the philosophies, many of the templates still

work. There are certain tech tools and so on, of course, that have changed over time. Those things

change non-stop, the rate of improvement, Moore's Law, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All of those

things have changed, but there are certain through lines and tactics

and strategies that still work so readers and listeners alike often ask me what would you change

what would you update but an equally interesting question is what wouldn't i change what would

i keep what stands the test of time what has already stood the test of time for nearly 20 years,

and hasn't lost any potency whatsoever. So I'm going to share two chapters from the audiobook

this week that highlight a lot that you can still use. These chapters push you to defend

your scarcest resource, attention, as opposed to just time,

one by saying no to people, the other by saying no to excess information, which has never had

more relevance than today. So there's a lot in here that you can copy and paste. They feature some of

my favorite tools and frameworks, including polite, but firm word-for-word

scripts that I still use to this day. As I already mentioned with the tech, some examples may feel

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