4-Hour Workweek Author Tim Ferriss on Green Lifestyle Design VIDEO

Treehugger founder Graham Hill sits down at the computer for a video chat with man-about-the world, high tech entrepreneur, and author Tim Ferris.

As far as I can tell, Tim Ferriss' only business is selling something called BrainQUICKEN, a supplement which promises to "increase the speed of neural transmission and information processing". The BrainQUICKEN website reads like a manual on shady salesmanship.

So I guess my question is "When did snake oil become high tech?"

I love his book, it is full of inspiration. I have read it twice and highly recommend.

this guy is a fraud. no evidence to back up most of his outlandish claims. yah right, MMA champ and kickboxing champ, trains olympic atheletes -- i suppose because he says it on his blog, so it must be true? where's the proof? the truth will prevail and conmen will go to jail.

Despite the aforementioned criticisms of Tim's claims, his message is powerful, and we must not forget that.

Who cares where he is coming from as long as he can engage us with his very real, possibly lifechanging philosophies? How could you argue against optimizing your life?

My advice: sift through the blatant self promotion and concentrate on what's important.

this guy and this book is a fraud. it's totally unrealistic. yes, you can work 4 hours per week if you have a lump of money to live off, but the rest of the world has to support you and your useless no-contribution-to-society lathargy, and people like you. so great the sells a snake oil product; why not use youre free time to do something useful for the world instead of write books about how useless you are to society?

To all the critics: Well, you may disagree or not believe Tim's statements, that is your business. I frankly don't care. Did he win the Tango championship? You know, he could. I am a dancer myself and I train with GREAT coaches at MIT ballroom dance team and can see what a good coach can do. And if you go through 5 months of rigorous training, and that is all you do, you can actually do pretty well...

You know, after embracing Tim's philosophy and approach to work, I was able to greatly reduce my time at work, my energy usage, and therefore my impact on environment, and free my time for dancing and other stuff I enjoy doing.

I don't work 4 hours per week, because we are in services business, but after taking what I call "lazy way to do business" I reduced the number of roofing estimate that we do by 3 times. We use technology to do estimates now and also weed out the customers we do not want, without wasting our time with them. I drive much less now, because pictures can be send by email.

All in all this is a great idea, and only does good for the mother earth, and if you do not see the benefits, keep on working 9-5.

The overall concept of a 4-hour work week is like others here have said - not possible unless you're "money-bags." But, if you can apply some of the techniques described, the overall benefit could be great!

It's probably a good thing to try, who knows, maybe you can reduce the hours you currently work by some.