The E-Myth Revisited Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What to Do About It

Michael Gerber's the e-myth revisited for instance makes me think when you're talking about about that Is there anything else that comes to mind the e-myth was huge for me?

I remember specifically reading a passage and it said It was giving an example of somebody who ran a bakery and they were staying up all night Baking and then they're running covered in flour and trying to peck into the cash register You know try and serve customers and it was just such a perfect picture of where I was at in that moment that I was Just trying to do everything. I was trying to hold up the world and so pain plus reading Success, right? You need the pain

Somebody gave me the book E-Myth. I didn't read it on the way to China, but I read it all on the way back.

It's a story about a lady that makes pies. And so it was her hobby. She loved making pies. And so she went into business making pies, like I went into business making molds.

It kind of turned into a nightmare. Well, my life had kind of turned into a nightmare.

one of the things that he said, is that systems run the business and people run the systems.

I got off the plane. I went to the pay phone and I called E-Myth and said, I need help.

And then I read a few business books like the E-Myth 3 visited and things like that which talked about the power of building a system so then I was like all right cool this isn't just me making stuff up as I go systems design is actually a thing so let's lean into that so now we try and convert everything into a system