Next year marks a full decade since the debut of Tim Ferriss's massive bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek. If you haven't read it, you pretty much need to go download it now.

If I had to characterize the book, I'd say it's less of a "how-to" guide to success and productivity than a "how not to" book. It's largely about eliminating the things that distract you from achieving your life goals, so that you can spent more time actually achieving and enjoying those goals.

About a year after his book came out, Ferriss wrote a much-shared blog post about the top things he suggests not doing. In the ensuing eight years, his readers have added comments with even more smart suggestions. (Note, Ferriss also did an audio version on his podcast, which you can find here

Here are the top 19 things I learned from this whole exercise, culled and updated for 2016. Let me know in the comments if you can come up with a great No. 20.

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