WHAT IF YOU COULD BECOME WORLD-CLASS IN ANYTHING IN 6 MONTHS OR LESS?
“The 4-Hour Chef” isn't just a cookbook. It's a choose-your-own-adventure guide to the world of rapid learning.
#1 “New York Times” bestselling author (and lifelong non-cook) Tim
Ferriss takes you from Manhattan to Okinawa, and from Silicon Valley to
Calcutta, unearthing the secrets of the world's fastest learners and greatest
chefs. Ferriss uses cooking to explain “meta-learning,” a step-by-step
process that can be used to master anything, whether searing steak or shooting
3-pointers in basketball. That is the real “recipe” of “The 4-Hour
Chef.”
You'll train inside the kitchen for everything outside the kitchen. Featuring
tips and tricks from chess prodigies, world-renowned chefs, pro athletes, master
sommeliers, super models, and everyone in between, this “cookbook for people
who don't buy cookbooks” is a guide to mastering cooking and life.
“The 4-Hour Chef” is a five-stop journey through the art and science of learning:
- META-LEARNING. Before you learn to cook, you must learn to learn. META charts the path to doubling your learning potential.
- THE DOMESTIC. DOM is where you learn the building blocks of cooking. These are the ABCs (techniques) that can take you from Dr, Seuss to Shakespeare.
- THE WILD. Becoming a master student requires self-sufficiency in all things. WILD teaches you to hunt, forage, and survive.
- THE SCIENTIST. SCI is the mad scientist and modernist painter wrapped into one. This is where you rediscover whimsy and wonder.
- THE PROFESSIONAL. Swaraj, a term usually associated with Mahatma Gandhi, can be translated as “self-rule.” In PRO, we'll look at how the best in the world become the best in the world, and how you can chart your own path far beyond this book.
Author Biography
Tim Ferriss is author of the #1 “New York Times” best sellers “The 4-Hour Workweek” and “The 4-Hour Body.” He's been called “The Superman of Silicon Valley” by “Wired, " one of "Fast Company”'s “Most Innovative Business People” and “the world's best guinea pig” by “Newsweek, " which ranked him in its top 10 "most powerful” personalities on the 2012 Digital 100 Power Index. He is an adviser and faculty member at Singularity University, based at NASA Ames Research Center, which focuses on leveraging accelerating technologies to address global problems. Tim's work has been featured in the "New York Times, Forbes, " the "Economist, " and "The New Yorker, " among many others.