This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

My guest today is the best-selling author of the four-hour work week, the four-hour body,

the four-hour chef.

He's otherwise known as the guy that has revolutionized the idea of writing a book.

Regardless of subject, Tim Ferriss has engineered the process of a bestseller.

As a guy that's written five books that have sold nowhere near the copies that Tim has sold,

I love learning. I love looking and seeing what someone else has done that I did not think about, that I did not execute.

If you want to write a book, there is absolutely no one else better to learn from.

Heck, even if you don't have a chance to meet him, talk to him, just observe from afar.

Observe his actions.

There's a second big influence that Tim Ferriss has had on my life.

Location Independence.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Tim made it okay.

I mean, I've always known I could be location independent and I've done it, but Tim made it really okay. That if you had your laptop, you had your cell phone, that you could work from anywhere.

I mean, there's a massive movement of people around the world that have said, I've had enough

of the cube, I've had enough of the desk jockey stuff, and I'm going to be anywhere.

I'm one of those people.

I'm always appreciative that I had a chance to be influenced in this direction.

And Tim's definitely partially, if not all, responsible for the initial idea.

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