The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Tim Ferriss
This guy turns himself into a guinea pig. So many experiments man… this guy basically tracked everything he did, put in his body, ate, drank etc. The videos explain best. Contents at the bottom will tell you more.
The 4-Hour Body
Hacking the Body
The (Female) 15-Minute Orgasm
The Body as a Start-up
CONTENTS
- START HERE
Thinner, Bigger, Faster, Stronger? How to Use This Book
- FUNDAMENTALS—FIRST AND FOREMOST
The Minimum Effective Dose: From Microwaves to Fat-Loss
Rules That Change the Rules: Everything Popular Is Wrong
- GROUND ZERO—GETTING STARTED AND SWARAJ
The Harajuku Moment: The Decision to Become a Complete Human
Elusive Bodyfat: Where Are You Really?
From Photos to Fear: Making Failure Impossible
- SUBTRACTING FAT
BASICS
The Slow-Carb Diet I: How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days Without Exercise
The Slow-Carb Diet II: The Finer Points and Common Questions
Damage Control: Preventing Fat Gain When You Binge
The Four Horsemen of Fat-Loss: PAGG
ADVANCED
Ice Age: Mastering Temperature to Manipulate Weight
The Glucose Switch: Beautiful Number 100
The Last Mile: Losing the Final 5–10 Pounds
- ADDING MUSCLE
Building the Perfect Posterior (or Losing 100+ Pounds)
Six-Minute Abs: Two Exercises That Actually Work
From Geek to Freak: How to Gain 34 Pounds in 28 Days
Occam’s Protocol I: A Minimalist Approach to Mass
Occam’s Protocol II: The Finer Points
- IMPROVING SEX
The 15-Minute Female Orgasm—Part Un
The 15-Minute Female Orgasm—Part Deux
Sex Machine I: Adventures in Tripling Testosterone
Sex Machine I: Adventures in Tripling Testosterone
Happy Endings and Doubling Sperm Count
- PERFECTING SLEEP
Engineering the Perfect Night’s Sleep
Becoming Uberman: Sleeping Less with Polyphasic Sleep
- REVERSING INJURIES
Reversing “Permanent” Injuries
How to Pay for a Beach Vacation with One Hospital Visit
Pre-Hab: Injury-Proofing the Body
- RUNNING FASTER AND FARTHER
Hacking the NFL Combine I: Preliminaries—Jumping Higher
Hacking the NFL Combine II: Running Faster
Ultraendurance I: Going from 5K to 50K in 12 Weeks—Phase I
Ultraendurance II: Going from 5K to 50K in 12 Weeks—Phase II
- GETTING STRONGER
Effortless Superhuman: Breaking World Records with Barry Ross
Eating the Elephant: How to Add 100 Pounds to Your Bench Press
- FROM SWIMMING TO SWINGING
How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days
The Architecture of Babe Ruth
How to Hold Your Breath Longer Than Houdini
- ON LONGER AND BETTER LIFE
Living Forever: Vaccines, Bleeding, and Other Fun
- CLOSING THOUGHTS
Closing Thoughts: The Trojan Horse
I’ve already been living most of the life he’s described and as much as he makes free time look good… I just like working man! But for those that need help in any area or want to make the full change this book covers it step by step and so much valuable info. I’m a lover of good systems, workflow, automation and organisation and this guy hits the point home. Another point that he nails straight on the head is bosses and workers shooting themselves in the leg with ‘oh I have so much going on bla di bla’ excuses that they never focus on the main areas. I’ve personally seen this in nearly every workplace. When the boss is away the workers have more fun and get more done. (I’m coining that!) So the boss is away doing something important and the workers have to use their brains and resources. When the boss is around ‘overseeing’ things the worker subconsciously knows that if they mess up the OVERseer will be there to pick up the pieces. More stress for the boss and worst it can get for the working is a letting off. Plus lawd knows how many of my coworkers have confided in me for help or information in fear of going to the head. This guy makes sense, the boss is attached to his baby so even the smallest things bug them out.
I didn’t have much faith in psychiatrists… until now. It’s amazing how studying people and interactions can reveal so much and categorise the type of interactions and the like. So lets break it down. First the writer differentiates between procedures, rituals, passtimes and games. Games is the only one in which people use the interaction to get something out of. As in ulterior motives, consciously or unconsciously. Normal interaction e.g. in units – On a hi bye basis it’s say 3 units each. Hi – hi, how you doing – fine how you doing, same old – well see you later. Now in this interaction both parties are used to 3 units of transaction daily. So if you go on a holiday and don’t interact with the person the units build up so next time both sides have to make up for the units by adding stuff like ‘not seen you in a while, where did you go, I really needed that holiday, you should go there, etc.
Now explaining all this jazz. So first everybody has an inner parent, adult and child. So whoever starts the interaction (agent) comes from one of these spaces and then the person replying (respondent) will come back from one of these spaces. Your inner parent is you doing what your parents do, your inner child is what you did as a child and your adult is you in your present moment kinda thing. E.g. of adult – adult transaction is ‘do you know where the keys are’ – ‘they’re on the desk’. E.g. of parent – child transaction is ‘you keep losing the keys’ – ‘you always blame me for everything’. It’s not always negative but you can tell from the transaction. So far I’ve only given an example of complementary transactions where parent state is talking to child stage and child state replies to parent state. It gets more complex as parent state can talk to child state and the reply would be from parent state to child or adult or parent state. Hopefully the diagrams gives you a better idea since we’ve not even got the games yet. So while these interactions are happening on a social level there is a different game happening on a psychological level. E.g. Hubby parent interacts on a social level with Wifey child by telling her ‘stay at home’, and wife plays the ‘if it weren’t for you’ game. On the psychological level his child is really interacting with her as ‘I’m terrified’ and her child replies with the ‘protect me’ frame.
Yeah I liked the book coz he swears in it, he’s not conventional, mixes lots of schools of thoughts and had some great angles and knowledge of his own about things. Can’t be bothered about going into detail. I didn’t like the book coz it sometimes felt like he was having a conversation with himself and rambling and ranting a lot. That’s it from me… big up DD for the recommendation.