Anthony Astbury read Tim Ferriss's Four Hour Work Week in 2014 and found the four-hour goal unrealistic, but the first step worked: negotiating one day per week from home by promising to double his output. That led to full remote work.
Remember, there's a book actually called the Four Hour Work Week by a guy called Tim Ferriss. I read that book in 2014 for the first time and it fucking changed my world. I was like, oh my God, you can operate like this. And so, you know, if you haven't, if nobody's read it, the premise is basically, you know, four hour work week is like condense all of your work into four hours and then you can do stuff that you enjoy or brings you, you know, outside of that, the reality is doing a four hour work week is folly. It's not realistic. But actually the first step in that was to have negotiate working from home one day a week. That's like the first steps. If you, if you read it, that's kind of the bit that the coaches you want in the beginning and then you kind of like, you know, you build up to four hours working wherever. Anyway, the reason why this is important to your question is that it, it gave me the confidence to go and negotiate a one day a week working from home when this was just a not a thing. Right. And, and the premise behind that was let me work from home and I will double my output, like literally, because avoiding all the distractions. Don't have a, you know, a commute in and out. Yeah.
