Andy Purcell

So,

you got to understand something, whatever your skillset is.

Let's say you're a woodworker and you're fucking the most amazing woodworker on the fucking planet.

And you want to turn this woodworking into a business.

Obviously you have a great product and obviously you're skilled at it.

Once you start to turn something that you really love into a business and

for at least temporarily, it will pull you away from that craft.

Okay.

And you'll have to learn this whole new set of skills, which is business.

A lot, a lot of doctors, a lot of lawyers fail to understand this because they go to school for so long.

Their egos are so fucking inflated that they think they know how to do everything.

And that's why you see them open a practice and go out of business or open a law firm.

office go out of business because they yeah they might be great at being a doctor at the craft they might be great at being a lawyer they're fucking terrible at running business and if we're being honest dude i'm gonna be totally honest doctors are the worst business people i've ever fucking met really yeah because their egos are so fucking big they won't fucking listen to anything and they think they know everything i went to so-and-so for 12 years i don't give a fuck they gave me these letters you can't sell a motherfucking thing yeah okay so

You got to understand these are two different skills.

Your craft and the skill of business are two different things.

And if you want to actually turn this into a business, you're going to have to pull away.

And instead of working in the business, you're going to have to work on the business until you are able to learn how to operate a business to the point where you can bring people in to help you with that process.

And as you bring skilled people in and as you build a culture and as you build systems and start to scale, which by the way, this doesn't happen overnight either.

okay, then you could go back sometimes and do what you do, right?

A really good example of this is my buddy Jesse James, okay?