I’m going from my general impression of the chapter “The Low Information Diet” in The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris, where he recommends restricting information for a single week. It would be hyperbole to say Tim Ferris always avoids reading books. It may be more accurate to say he sometimes avoids reading books.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Most people have weeks where they don’t read books. The fact that someone needs to make a conscious decision to go a week without reading books is a sign fo a person who reads a lot of books.
A Quora answer from 2016 (a decade after 4-Hour Workweek) suggest he read 1-4 books/per week at the time.
Ferris is probably coming from a place of the LINDY Effect- why read new books, when books that are older definitively are more useful because if they hadn’t been useful they wouldn’t have lasted as long.
New content and timely content is more of a bet than a sure thing.
That statement seems to be too general given that his last post about recommending books he read isn’t even a year old.
It seemed Tim Ferriss did say:
Older books seem to be still fair game for him.
I’m going from my general impression of the chapter “The Low Information Diet” in The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris, where he recommends restricting information for a single week. It would be hyperbole to say Tim Ferris always avoids reading books. It may be more accurate to say he sometimes avoids reading books.
Most people have weeks where they don’t read books. The fact that someone needs to make a conscious decision to go a week without reading books is a sign fo a person who reads a lot of books.
A Quora answer from 2016 (a decade after 4-Hour Workweek) suggest he read 1-4 books/per week at the time.
Ferris is probably coming from a place of the LINDY Effect- why read new books, when books that are older definitively are more useful because if they hadn’t been useful they wouldn’t have lasted as long.
New content and timely content is more of a bet than a sure thing.
Tim Ferriss (two s) does lay out his reasons in the linked post, so there’s not really a reason to speculate.