Ali reads The E-Myth Revisited in 2019 and it changes how he runs his business (2019)
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Told alongside: Ali builds a team for his online business
About: The E-Myth
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) | told | From The E-Myth, a book on growing a small business, Ali concludes that he made many mistakes in the early stages of his company SixMed by not delegating enough. | My Annual Review using Notion 00:07:31 |
| 2020-10-08 | retold | Ali first read The E-Myth Revisited in July 2019, and the book completely blew his mind. (hedged) | How I Remember Everything I Read 00:08:43 |
| 2021-01-17 | retold | Ali says The E-Myth Revisited made publishing on YouTube a lot easier for him: instead of one video at a time, he now thinks of it as a holistic, coherent system. | My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers 00:14:46 |
| 2021-07-28 | retold | Ali calls The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber a book that changed his life and his business: to run a great business you must be not only a technician doing the work but also an entrepreneur who plans ahead and a manager who knows what is happening and delegates. | How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time 00:07:11 |
| 2021-10-10 | retold | Ali began outsourcing editing and research after business books such as The E-Myth Revisited showed him the power of outsourcing. | In Conversation with Charlie from Charisma on Command #ptya 00:35:36 |
| 2022-02-25 | retold | Ali recommends Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited, which he read in 2019 and says completely changed his life: being good at baking pies differs from running a pie business. | How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal 00:30:58 |
| 2022-03-03 | retold | The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber, which changed Ali's life when he read it in 2019, is in his view required reading for anyone at level three of a YouTube channel who wants to systemise it. | How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube 00:27:39 |
| 2022-03-21 | retold | The E-Myth Revisited, read in 2019, is the book that most changed Ali's life once his business was successful; he recommends it to creators and entrepreneurs whose businesses succeed but who feel burnt out because they have not delegated or built a team. | The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books 00:19:06 |
| 2023-02-01 | retold | Ali calls Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited one of the most impactful books he has read for creators and business owners: it single-handedly changed the course of his YouTube channel and entrepreneurship career by teaching him how to delegate. | The Best Book I've Ever Read about Business #shorts 00:00:00 |
| 2023-05-07 | retold | Ali has not edited a video on his channel since around 2019: he edited all his own videos for the first two years, then, after reading The E-Myth Revisited and with a mentor's push, outsourced editing, which freed time for writing, research, family, friends and his health. | How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time 00:07:41 |
| 2023-08-11 | retold | Ali says Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited describes everything he struggled with in his first business; had he known it existed, he would have seen that he could hire people. | If I Wanted to Be a Millionaire Before 30, I'd Do This 00:14:13 |
| 2023-09-01 | retold | Ali's third habit, adopted in 2019 after reading Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited: build systems as if creating a franchise like Starbucks, so that the results of the business and channel depend on the system rather than on individual people. | 8 Steps That Got Me Millions of Subscribers on YouTube 00:03:45 |
| 2023-10-06 | retold | About a year into YouTube, Ali read Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited and realised that a YouTube channel is a business, and businesses grow through systems and operations. | 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started YouTube 00:06:49 |
| 2023-10-11 | update | Ali has recently read The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber for about the third time. | One of the best books I've ever read about business 📈 00:00:00 |
| 2023-11-28 | retold | Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited completely changed Ali's life by introducing him to systemisation and delegation: he saw his YouTube channel as the prototype for a franchise, like McDonald's, which gives an identical experience anywhere. | If I Wanted to Grow An Audience in 2026, I'd Do This 00:08:39 |
| 2024-10-15 (happened 2019) | retold | Ali first read The E-Myth Revisited in 2019, after finishing medical school, and says it took him from making around $100,000 a year in his business to multiple millions a year. | The Book that Made Me a Millionaire 00:00:00 |
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- 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — Ali: Unable to sleep at one in the morning recently, Ali took literature notes from The E-Myth Revisited on his iPad Pro, with Kindle on one side of the screen and Notion on the other. — 00:08:43
- 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — Ali is only halfway through his notes on The E-Myth Revisited, but rereading it is giving him many new insights, since a genuinely life-changing book is rare. — 00:09:05
- 2021-01-17 · My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers — recommendation: Ali recommends Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited, which he recommends to all his course students, as a great way to change your mindset to thinking in terms of systems. — 00:14:17
- 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali: A few months after reading The E-Myth Revisited, Ali's business made enough money to afford a full-time employee, and he was really scared about hiring his first one. — 00:07:11
- 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — recommendation: Ali: Traction, read in 2021, was probably the book that most accelerated his business that year, as The E-Myth was in 2019; Ali recommends it to businesses with more than three employees and says it is not very relevant before that. (hedged) — 00:20:04
- 2023-05-07 · How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time — recommendation: Ali: The first of two main ways to increase leverage in YouTube and business is building systems, which Ali learned from The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. — 00:04:19
- 2023-05-07 · How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time — recommendation: Ali raves about The E-Myth Revisited: it looks like a boring business book but is incredibly exciting, because it is about the power of systems and of leverage. — 00:04:48
- 2023-05-07 · How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time — Ali: Retelling The E-Myth's McDonald's example, Ali says McDonald's, like Starbucks and other franchises, gives the same experience anywhere in the world because it has created systems for everything, written in a handbook for its employees. — 00:05:15
- 2023-05-07 · How I Started My YouTube Channel in My Spare Time — Ali: Businesses grow by building systems and operations, Ali says; it sounded boring to him once, but applying it to his YouTube channel changed his life. — 00:05:44
- 2023-10-11 · One of the best books I've ever read about business 📈 — recommendation: Ali recommends The E-Myth Revisited, an old-school book, to creators and entrepreneurs whose business is already successful but who struggle to scale themselves because they try to do everything. — 00:00:09
- 2024-10-15 · The Book that Made Me a Millionaire — Ali thinks that reading and applying the insights of The E-Myth Revisited gives a new business better odds than the usual failure rate. — 00:00:21
- 2024-10-15 · The Book that Made Me a Millionaire — Ali: After reading The E-Myth Revisited, Ali realised that if Pixar can systemise making a film, he could systemise making a YouTube video; he says this helped his channel scale. — 00:19:24