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Adam SinickiThriving in the Gig Economyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4090-8_8

8. Lifestyle Design

Adam Sinicki1 
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Bicester, UK
 

If you are a sole proprietor, then effectively you are your business.

In that way, your business and your personal life are effectively inseparable. And while this can sometimes be a bad thing, we’re also going to see why this can be an incredibly good thing. Because once you remove the arbitrary separation between “work” and “life,” you start to realize that you have much greater freedom to live the precise lifestyle you choose. This is one of the true benefits of entering the gig economy.

This is the central idea behind “lifestyle design”—a concept popularized by Tim Ferriss in The 4-Hour Workweek ...

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