Childhood Memories: Mom’s Contests
Filed Under (Four Hour Workweek, Stories) by projecthitchhiker on 31-10-2008
Tagged Under : Childhood Memories, Contests, Family Trip, Stories, Sweepstakes, Winners
In the Four Hour Workweek, Tim Ferris talks about his simple, yet unconventional strategies for winning the Chinese National Kickboxing championship with relatively little kickboxing experience. How knowing the finer points of the rules and focusing on their weaknesses led him to win first prize in the tournament, simultaneously pissing off the whole of China. My mom was doing this Four Hour Workweek stuff — using existing rules and structures to her advantage, outsourcing her workload — before Tim Ferris joined his Highschool wrestling team. Back when he was still wearing tighty whities and Spiderman pajamas.
