The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
My rst book, after being turned down by 26 out of 27 publishers, had just hit the New York
Times bestseller list and seemed headed for #1 on the business list, where it landed several
months later. No one was more dumbfounded than me.
One particularly beautiful morning in San Jose, I had my rst major media phone interview
with Clive Thompson of Wired magazine. During our pre-interview small chat, I apologized if I
sounded buzzed. I was. I had just nished a 10-minute workout following a double espresso on
an empty stomach. It was a new experiment that would take me to single-digit bodyfat with
two such sessions per week.
Clive wanted to talk to me about e-mail and websites like Twitter. Before we got started, and
as a segue from the workout comment, I joked that the major fears of modern man could be
boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat. Clive laughed and agreed. Then we
moved on.