What are Business Folk Reading? Andrea Kraushaar tells us of a new way of thinking.
by Yolandi on 10/12/09 at 7:30 am
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This week I asked Andrea Kraushaar, youth strategy and research director at Youth Dynamix, what she’s reading right now and was told of a great book that changed her way of thinking.
For Andrea this interesting book, called The 4-hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss, changed the way she thought about balance in life and her work/life balance. “It is strongly feeding into some of the prior reading that I have done – most recently A New Earth by Eckard Tolle – I find the book extremely difficult to read and get into, but have been listening to the audio CD’s in my car. His thinking around the topic of humans, our conscious vs. unconscious lives and what he calls ‘the pain body’ are really interesting and thought provoking.”
Tim Ferriss offers a popular course at Princeton University called Drug Dealing for Fun and Profit and his book is based on this course. His writing has appeared in Maxim, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Blackbelt Magazine.
“In ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’, Ferriss explores the epidemic of information, abuse and addiction that has left us overwhelmed and confused, and poorer for it, and asks us to rethink our lives. Ferriss is convinced that we can lead a rich life by working only 4 hours a week, freeing up the rest of our time to spend it living the lives we want.” – Exclusive Books
The book offers tips and tricks so you no longer have to wait to retire to enjoy fun, travel and adventure; shows you how to find your muse; replace your dreams with goals and how to ‘add life’ after subtracting work. Thanks Andrea for sharing this interesting book with us!
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is nuts about anything on 4 wheels. Besides moonlighting as the Heavy Chef girl at World Wide Creative, Yolandi runs Autofemme, a blog about cars, as a business on the side. View more articles by Yolandi.
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Tyron Bache
Dec 10th, 2009
Brilliant book, can’t recommend it enough! Really remarkable is how the book gives you restricted access to part of his website. Can’t wait for he new book! Hope there will be more posts like this? what are the ideate team members reading at the moment?
Fred Roed
Dec 10th, 2009
Tyron! thanks for the cool feedback – : )
I think all the Ideate members are voracious readers. I’m reading a few at the moment, but of all the books I’ve read recently my fave one was ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell.
Tyron Bache
Dec 11th, 2009
Pleasure Fred – this book is going to be epic – REWORK – http://twitpic.com/sxheo – can’t wait to get my hands on it! I have only read the tipping point of Malcom’s, have you read much Seth Godin?
Mark Pretorius
Dec 11th, 2009
I’m reading “Glimmer: how design can transform your business, your life, and maybe even the world” by Warren Burger.
Really interesting – making me want to challenge the big corporate norms.
Jarred
Dec 11th, 2009
This is a really good book, I would recommend it to anyone. The only problem is … there is a much better book with a better grasp of work life balance which will really change everyone’s mind regarding work.
Its called “Why work sucks, and how to fix it” by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson
Honestly, it is a must have for anyone who wants to know about a better way of life and work. Even if you dont have the power at your company to change it. After reading it I was on a rampage of evangelical fervor.
There are numberous articles on the web about it. Simply google ROWE or Results Only Work Environment for a brief insight.
Gareth Cotten
Dec 19th, 2009
This is an super-uber-unbelievably-outstanding book! I’ve literally just finished reading it, and will probably re-read it in the next few days. What I love most about it is that someone has finally written a book about how I feel about working (and working efficiently), and how practical it is. It supports the idea that so many people and entrepreneurs fall into: Feeling that they need to be busy, so they fill their time with meaningless, unproductive gumpf. Rather do what you need to, spend time on your growth plans, then chill out!
On a different note, also just read the Warren Buffett book “The Snowball”. Very, very different to the whole work-as-little-as-possible vibe, but a fascinating and comprehensive book on investing and business in general. Think I really benefited by reading one right after the other – contrasts play off each other well, to get the most out of each book…
Tyron Bache
Dec 27th, 2009
Tweet from Tim Ferris – “Thinking of spending January in South Africa, likely Cape Town. Any suggestions for housing (w/ broadband ideal), must-see, must-do?” you guys should def try hook him up!