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Efficiency: Get Rich Without Giving Up Your Life
We have written this book as if writing to a son who is interested in becoming rich and maintaining a healthy physique and social life. We’ve seen many people become rich… yet they lack social skills (trapped in relationships they desperately want to escape) or… their bodies have seen material physical decay. We’re putting out the framework in this book and you’ll have all of the tools you need to get get rich and have a fun life at the same time.
We’re not going to lie and say this is a “guarantee” to become rich. There are no guarantees. Getting rich and winning at life is no different than sports. We can give you every single step to take and how to do it. But. It is up to YOU to execute on the steps. Instead of buying 10 different books at the same time, we’ll give everything out in ten key beneficial points:
1) How to get into the top 10% physically with one hour a day of exercise per day. You’re going to be busy and unless you’re a professional athlete, dedicating an hour a day will be enough. This is the first step to become a well rounded individual as a healthy person can work longer hours, has more energy to go out and have fun and extends his life (the most valuable asset in the world: Time)
2) How to eat correctly to be in the top 10%. We’ll give you the rough blue print for items to eat on a daily basis. By simply following the framework you won’t need to count calories/macros etc since we’re trying to be efficient with our time. By following the framework, you will have less stress (no longer calculating everything you eat) and you’ll give yourself some wiggle room to go out and drink when you feel like it.
3) How to figure out what type of intelligence you have. We give you a process to figure out where your skills are. Everyone has *relative* advantage in at least 2-3 categories. Use this to your advantage and develop your natural talents. We believe talent matters more than passions. Talents are natural to you and if they didn’t exist everyone would be able to make money in the exact same industries or throw a fastball at 100mph. Finding your type of intelligence is the first step to becoming rich.
4) How to use this type of intelligence to choose a career and the *right* company: Wall Street, Technology or Sales. We have talked about this in the past and you’ll notice we’re adding a new wrinkle. We’re giving you the tools to figure out what company to join. You’ll have basic mathematical formulas that will tell you if you should join Company A or Company B when the offers come rolling in.
5) How to start an online business and sell (the basics and all you need to start). This one is self explanatory. We go into details on how to start an online business and how to sell. The best thing about online businesses? The margin structure. As you’ll see the cost of running a website is practically nothing and you’ll need minimal start up capital to begin today.
6) Clear outline of how to create and start an online product business with correct copywriting. You’ll never be an expert in sales. No one is! Why? Every single second invested in learning more about sales will lead to a financial return. The game continues to evolve but we can give you the basic framework to start.
7) How to go into affiliate marketing if someone wants to take a stab at the competitive space. We give you both the legitimate affiliate marketing route and the dark side as well. The overnight success stories are “too good to be true” because they are. That said there are legitimate ways to do affiliate marketing as well. If you don’t want to create a product (yet) most people start here and move to starting a Company later (once they learn a specific niche)
8) Overview of how affiliate marketing operates and how to do it. Beyond the overview, we also tell you how to do it. Both the legitimate way and the dark side as well. We explain why the legitimate way is better long-term, but we’d be lying if we said everyone is selling on an equal playing field (they are not).
9) How to do all of this and maintain a normal social life (avoid choking off your personality). This puts everything together, we give a basic schedule and explain how to improve your social skills and meet new people frequently without losing traction with your business and career. If you’re able to keep your composure and go out twice a week, you’ll see your phone numbers increase and you’ll be much more interesting than the average person who works, sleeps and watches TV all day.
10) Common questions and a schedule.We provide a rough schedule on a weekly basis under the assumption that a person is not rich yet. In addition, we answer a large number of common questions and provide good answers to “questions around morality” which essentially says “Break every single rule you can because someone else will, just don’t break the law. Ever.” this is essentially the gray area that you’ll operate in if you’re new to any field.
We’re not going to lie and say this is a “guarantee” to become rich. There are no guarantees. Getting rich and winning at life is no different than sports. We can give you every single step to take and how to do it. But. It is up to YOU to execute on the steps. Instead of buying 10 different books at the same time, we’ll give everything out in ten key beneficial points:
1) How to get into the top 10% physically with one hour a day of exercise per day. You’re going to be busy and unless you’re a professional athlete, dedicating an hour a day will be enough. This is the first step to become a well rounded individual as a healthy person can work longer hours, has more energy to go out and have fun and extends his life (the most valuable asset in the world: Time)
2) How to eat correctly to be in the top 10%. We’ll give you the rough blue print for items to eat on a daily basis. By simply following the framework you won’t need to count calories/macros etc since we’re trying to be efficient with our time. By following the framework, you will have less stress (no longer calculating everything you eat) and you’ll give yourself some wiggle room to go out and drink when you feel like it.
3) How to figure out what type of intelligence you have. We give you a process to figure out where your skills are. Everyone has *relative* advantage in at least 2-3 categories. Use this to your advantage and develop your natural talents. We believe talent matters more than passions. Talents are natural to you and if they didn’t exist everyone would be able to make money in the exact same industries or throw a fastball at 100mph. Finding your type of intelligence is the first step to becoming rich.
4) How to use this type of intelligence to choose a career and the *right* company: Wall Street, Technology or Sales. We have talked about this in the past and you’ll notice we’re adding a new wrinkle. We’re giving you the tools to figure out what company to join. You’ll have basic mathematical formulas that will tell you if you should join Company A or Company B when the offers come rolling in.
5) How to start an online business and sell (the basics and all you need to start). This one is self explanatory. We go into details on how to start an online business and how to sell. The best thing about online businesses? The margin structure. As you’ll see the cost of running a website is practically nothing and you’ll need minimal start up capital to begin today.
6) Clear outline of how to create and start an online product business with correct copywriting. You’ll never be an expert in sales. No one is! Why? Every single second invested in learning more about sales will lead to a financial return. The game continues to evolve but we can give you the basic framework to start.
7) How to go into affiliate marketing if someone wants to take a stab at the competitive space. We give you both the legitimate affiliate marketing route and the dark side as well. The overnight success stories are “too good to be true” because they are. That said there are legitimate ways to do affiliate marketing as well. If you don’t want to create a product (yet) most people start here and move to starting a Company later (once they learn a specific niche)
8) Overview of how affiliate marketing operates and how to do it. Beyond the overview, we also tell you how to do it. Both the legitimate way and the dark side as well. We explain why the legitimate way is better long-term, but we’d be lying if we said everyone is selling on an equal playing field (they are not).
9) How to do all of this and maintain a normal social life (avoid choking off your personality). This puts everything together, we give a basic schedule and explain how to improve your social skills and meet new people frequently without losing traction with your business and career. If you’re able to keep your composure and go out twice a week, you’ll see your phone numbers increase and you’ll be much more interesting than the average person who works, sleeps and watches TV all day.
10) Common questions and a schedule.We provide a rough schedule on a weekly basis under the assumption that a person is not rich yet. In addition, we answer a large number of common questions and provide good answers to “questions around morality” which essentially says “Break every single rule you can because someone else will, just don’t break the law. Ever.” this is essentially the gray area that you’ll operate in if you’re new to any field.
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First published July 22, 2017
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September 8, 2017
Incredible book that shows how to live an efficient life in all areas and build a life rich in happiness and wealth. Super stoked to discover this at 17.
September 13, 2017
This is a book you give your son when he's 16, and make sure he reads it by the age of 21
May 21, 2019
Must read for everyone, especially under the age of 20-25.
February 1, 2019
Personal notes on the book, not on a particular order:
If you have to rely on external motivational factors, you are never going to make it.
It is up to you and only you to hold yourself accountable and compare yourself to the person you were last year.
Do the opposite from the masses.
The only sale that matters is the one that converts.
"You are hardworking or you're smart. You cannot be both."
Real improvement is a lot of nothing followed by a step function upward. Only beginners see linear
improvement at first.
You are a bad person if you do not attempt to get rich because you are neglecting every
single person you care about.
If you’re not executing every day, you’re falling behind every single day.
Read copywriting and sales books.
Target fear and insecurity.
Figure out what type of intelligence you have. Predictive abilities and Synthesis are the *easiest* to learn (numerics is the hardest to improve upon).
Use the type of a intelligence to pick a career: sales, technology or finance.
Find transferable skills: Sales, Networking, Efficiency, Maintenance, Continuity
Learn sales for every interaction. It is the most transferrable skill you will ever learn.
Start making money off of performance and all your extra money should fund a real second
source of income *before* investing in assets.
Build up on your strengths and talents.
Determine demand before creating a product.
Dont waste time on politics, social media and sports, unless they are making you money.
Reading is extremely important but it makes a feeling that you are doing work which you aren't. Read with purpose, without it becomes action faking.
You only need to read for a few hours a week and the rest of your time should be spent
updating and improving your websites/businesses etc.
Lifetime value of the customer is the most valuable number.
When an outrageous success story can actually impact your life emotionally it means the creator
of the content is converting your nervousness into positive energy. The “sale” is simply
converting deep seeded insecurity into positive pump up energy to make you buy some product
that won’t actually get you anywhere.
Stress is okay, worry from real problems is not.
Frugal people spend time cutting cost, future multi-millionaires spend time
creating income.
Frugality is a joke. Example: "research ways to save $5" vs. "spend
same amount of time making $25". Option one leads to $5... Option 2 leads to $30 with the
same time spent.
If you have to rely on external motivational factors, you are never going to make it.
It is up to you and only you to hold yourself accountable and compare yourself to the person you were last year.
Do the opposite from the masses.
The only sale that matters is the one that converts.
"You are hardworking or you're smart. You cannot be both."
Real improvement is a lot of nothing followed by a step function upward. Only beginners see linear
improvement at first.
You are a bad person if you do not attempt to get rich because you are neglecting every
single person you care about.
If you’re not executing every day, you’re falling behind every single day.
Read copywriting and sales books.
Target fear and insecurity.
Figure out what type of intelligence you have. Predictive abilities and Synthesis are the *easiest* to learn (numerics is the hardest to improve upon).
Use the type of a intelligence to pick a career: sales, technology or finance.
Find transferable skills: Sales, Networking, Efficiency, Maintenance, Continuity
Learn sales for every interaction. It is the most transferrable skill you will ever learn.
Start making money off of performance and all your extra money should fund a real second
source of income *before* investing in assets.
Build up on your strengths and talents.
Determine demand before creating a product.
Dont waste time on politics, social media and sports, unless they are making you money.
Reading is extremely important but it makes a feeling that you are doing work which you aren't. Read with purpose, without it becomes action faking.
You only need to read for a few hours a week and the rest of your time should be spent
updating and improving your websites/businesses etc.
Lifetime value of the customer is the most valuable number.
When an outrageous success story can actually impact your life emotionally it means the creator
of the content is converting your nervousness into positive energy. The “sale” is simply
converting deep seeded insecurity into positive pump up energy to make you buy some product
that won’t actually get you anywhere.
Stress is okay, worry from real problems is not.
Frugal people spend time cutting cost, future multi-millionaires spend time
creating income.
Frugality is a joke. Example: "research ways to save $5" vs. "spend
same amount of time making $25". Option one leads to $5... Option 2 leads to $30 with the
same time spent.
November 19, 2023
Very short and very easy read. Corny title, but the book has some very useful information that puts job/career/business plans into perspective, especially time-frame wise.
Written by a group of anonymous ex-Wall Street people, collecting the basics of their blog content. Not all parts of the book apply to everybody, but even those are interesting to read to better understand the situation of the people that those apply to. The book is targeted primarily at men, but almost all of it is applicable to women too; they might have to look past the blunt language of the book (which is intentionally very lazy/easy) and men-specific dating advice (interesting to read even if non-applicable).
The bluntness of the language is a positive for me, as well as getting straight to the point.
The book assumes USA numbers/background/jurisdiction, so it is not perfectly applicable to European standards, but apart from some of the specific money figures, most of it is applicable in most places in the Western world. Especially since a lot of it pertains to the internet.
A refreshing perspective on careers and money. Would recommend reading this book.
Written by a group of anonymous ex-Wall Street people, collecting the basics of their blog content. Not all parts of the book apply to everybody, but even those are interesting to read to better understand the situation of the people that those apply to. The book is targeted primarily at men, but almost all of it is applicable to women too; they might have to look past the blunt language of the book (which is intentionally very lazy/easy) and men-specific dating advice (interesting to read even if non-applicable).
The bluntness of the language is a positive for me, as well as getting straight to the point.
The book assumes USA numbers/background/jurisdiction, so it is not perfectly applicable to European standards, but apart from some of the specific money figures, most of it is applicable in most places in the Western world. Especially since a lot of it pertains to the internet.
A refreshing perspective on careers and money. Would recommend reading this book.
January 2, 2018
The best book ever written.
June 23, 2025
I wish I’d read this when I was younger.
March 4, 2023
In this book, Christian shares valuable insights and practical tips on how to achieve success without sacrificing your personal life. He argues that traditional models of overworking and constant striving for more are not sustainable, and instead proposes a more efficient approach to work and life.
While I have not personally bought a copy of the book, I found a PDF version of it on the website "https://pdfwhale.com/efficiency-get-r...".
Overall, "Efficiency: Get Rich Without Giving Up Your Life" may be a valuable resource for those seeking a more efficient and sustainable path to success.
While I have not personally bought a copy of the book, I found a PDF version of it on the website "https://pdfwhale.com/efficiency-get-r...".
Overall, "Efficiency: Get Rich Without Giving Up Your Life" may be a valuable resource for those seeking a more efficient and sustainable path to success.
April 13, 2020
A ~100-page attempt to recreate 4-hour workweek 10 years after it was published. Flipped through some pages since they didn't matter to me. I probably would have liked it if I was 19. I chose to live a bit differently and got some experiences that made some contents of the book redundant.
March 14, 2020
It is one of the most practical, succinct and candid books on getting rich. Every aspiring entrepreneur must read it.
July 6, 2020
Practical and to the point
January 30, 2021
Great blueprint for those living in America. Good blueprint for the rest for the world. Delivers as promised by the tilte
March 15, 2022
Excellent and to the point!
June 23, 2022
Possibly overly absolute but lots of great content and advice. Discovering this book before 21 would have been a life cheat code
July 22, 2022
Outstanding
July 19, 2023
The most concise book I've read. They don't fuck around with your time.
January 18, 2025
Provocative title, but motivating. Too focused on sales techniques, which weren't relevant to my interests.
April 2, 2025
Helped me come up with my first biz idea
September 29, 2025
Very actionable book with a dense amount of concepts and suggestions. Really takes time to read and fully digest, but can also be used as a guide that you come back to and read over and over.
January 6, 2021
2Old4Diz and also obviously as a non American female I’m not the target audience... some useful tidbits here and there but nothing groundbreaking, did motivate me to start something tho
August 20, 2022
I've been a reader of their blog for a few years now and it's become clear that all of my financial thinking is derived more or less from the things I learned on there. It will be very fun to put these principles into action going forward. Out of all the books I've ever read this one is really up there in terms of practical impact on my day-to-day life. Main lesson: if the masses are doing it, you should probably do the opposite.
January 15, 2022
1) Hyvä kirja 15 v sitten elämäntilanteeseen. Tsägällä tässä on tullut mentyä suunnilleen näillä linjoilla.
2) Jenkeissä (kuten vaikka Venäjälläkin) jengi on duunielämässä yhden "työsukupolven edellä". Eli karkeasti työelämään mennään siinä kohdassa kun Suomessa mennään intin jälkeen yliopistoon / amk:oon
2) Jenkeissä (kuten vaikka Venäjälläkin) jengi on duunielämässä yhden "työsukupolven edellä". Eli karkeasti työelämään mennään siinä kohdassa kun Suomessa mennään intin jälkeen yliopistoon / amk:oon
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