: Ryan Carroll
: Start Scale Exit How to Start, Build, and Sell a Business While Living the Life of Your Dreams
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'Start Scale Exit' by Ryan Carroll is a comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs at all levels, offering valuable insights on various ways to build and exit a business. In this book, Ryan challenges the notion that selling a business is the only way to exit, sharing his own story of successfully exiting a multi-million-dollar business in his mid-twenties while retaining ownership and control. With a desire to be a 'thriving artist, not a starving artist,' Ryan takes readers on a journey filled with victories and setbacks, offering fundamental business advice that inspires, entertains, and educates entrepreneurs at any stage. With features in esteemed publications like Forbes, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur, Ryan Carroll's expertise makes this book an invaluable resource for aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs alike.

Chapter2

Conformity Is the Killer

Get good grades. Don’t skip class. Go above and beyond in extracurricular activities. Get into a good college. Graduate. Get a respectable career. Start a family. Push your kids to do the same. The American dream.Right?

Nope!

Not for me. I always knew deep down from a young age that the traditional route wasn’t one I planned on taking, but there’s no denying the pain and hardship that come with taking the path less traveled. Today’s societal expectations are force-fed to us and passed down to each generation, where society now believes no one can have a good quality of life without formal education. We’re also taught that the more educated you are, the better the career and the better the life. Right? I’m betting that many doctors worldwide would disagree as they chip away at their student loans and endure long days full of highly stressful situations.

Because of my resistance to this narrative, I didn’t have much support growing up. If anything, I had a lot of the opposite. I used to be very shy and quiet, which was worse when I couldn’t perform well academically. This was because I’ve always had difficulty taking things I didn’t understand or thought mattered seriously. Sports and competitive projects, however, are where I found my confidence.

The competitive aspect of sports helped me become more social—too social—to the point where I became the class clown. I can’t count the times teachers pulled me aside and put me down, promising that unless I got my grades up and started behaving, I’d spend the rest of my life flipping burgers. These projections were communicated to my parents, who would regurgitate them to me with the hopes of scaring me into conformity. I don’t blame them; society had them believing that if I didn’t get into college, I’d be a failure, which meant that my parents failed at parenting.Society is savage.

The truth is that my parents were far from failures. While they did file for divorce when I was two, they always maintained a healthy relationship without drama and provided me with a pretty good childhood. We never really had a lot of money or luxuries, but I was always taken care of. My mom was a physical therapist who helped me live a healthy lifestyle. At the same time, my dad was an HR manager for the video game company Blizzard, which fueled my creativity and imagination.

My parents always wanted the best for me, so they enrolled me in a small private religious school that I attended from kindergarten through high school. Despite the effort put forth by my parents to set me up for success, I could never shake the feeling that grades, along with the rest of the school system, really didn’t matter. To me, the school system was just a manufactured simulation that was intended to manipulate people into living lives they didn’t want to live. I alwa