Like most things we do, dating has some good bits and some boring bits. Or bits we simply can’t get up the nerve to do.

Well, who said you have to do it all? Why not just do what you love, and leave the rest to someone else?

Tim Ferriss starts off a recent blog post with these titillations:

Can you [tag]outsource your dating[/tag]? I did.
Can you outsource your worrying? AJ Jacobs did.

Tim is the author of a book that’s vying for the top spot on the NY Times top seller list for the second month in a row, called The 4 Hour Work Week.

His secret for working only four hours a week is outsourcing – getting someone else to do ‘everything I don’t want to do’. Which, it seems, includes his personal life.

In trying to push the envelope on his ideas he recently outsourced his love life, and got others to line up more than 20 dates in a month. Dates which, he says, produced ‘a few keepers’ who live within half a mile of his home.

Do you think you could come at that sort of second hand romance? Either as a way of supercharging your love life, or as the recipient of such ‘attraction’?

It has a lot of possibilities, although as one commenter on the post observed – “How about outsourcing my whole life and just shooting myself in the head? What’s the point in living if all your experiences are second hand?”

Tim’s response? Do the parts you want to do, and let others worry about the rest.

Hmmm. With only four hours a week taken up with work, and a staff lining up a date every week night, could it soon get to be too much of a good thing? When do you get to enjoy it? Or run with the mood? I hope there’s a breaker switch wired into his treadmill.

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