How to Get Clarity in Your Life | Rob Dyrdek on Impact Theory

The video is an interview with entrepreneur and media superstar Rob Dyrdek, discussing his journey to success and the importance of belief and discipline in achieving one's goals.

The video is an interview with entrepreneur and media superstar Rob Dyrdek on the show Impact Theory. Dyrdek discusses the importance of belief in achieving success and how he transformed himself from a professional skateboarder to a multi-million dollar empire builder. He talks about his diverse and staggering success, including designing his own shoe, launching the world's first true professional skateboarding league, and creating hit shows for MTV, Nickelodeon, and CMT. The interview also touches on Dyrdek's highlights, such as being attacked by a shark and a tiger, and flipping a car as part of a Superbowl commercial without the aid of CGI.

• Belief is crucial in achieving goals and building something.
• Rob Dyrdek dropped out of high school and transformed himself mind and body over the next two years.
• Rob Dyrdek's journey to success is a highlight reel that nobody can take away from him.
• Stopping to take in the moment is a way to fully appreciate the journey and the destination.
• Rob Dyrdek talks about a moment of clarity he had while filming for a television show where he allowed an 8-foot shark to bite him.
• Rob Dyrdek talks about his lack of memory and how it is both a gift and a curse.
• Rob Dyrdek talks about the importance of belief and discipline in achieving goals.
• Progression is the key to happiness and ultimate evolution.
• Rob Dyrdek believes that belief and mindset are crucial to achieving success.

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The Importance of Belief

• Belief is the only thing that matters in achieving goals and building something.
• Belief is the starting point for achieving anything.
• Belief is what separates those who quit from those who succeed.
• Belief is what makes human potential nearly limitless.
• The key to achieving your dreams is to understand and believe in the micro actions that will get you there.

Rob Dyrdek's Journey to Success

• Rob Dyrdek dropped out of high school at 16 and moved to the west coast for a job that paid $1000 a month.
• He spent most nights drinking and smoking weed until his sponsors told him that the best years of his life were behind him.
• This wake-up call lit a fire under him and he transformed himself mind and body over the next two years.
• He designed his own shoe, launched the world's first true professional skateboarding league, and created a production company that made hit shows for MTV, Nickelodeon, and CMT.
• He has set 21 separate Guinness Book of World Records for skateboarding and has made toys that were sold at Walmart.
• His diverse and staggering success is the result of intention and discipline.

The Joys of Fantasy Factory

• Rob Dyrdek's version of a fantasy factory would be incredible.
• He moves at such a pace that he forgets about the depth of a lot of the things he has done.
• Flipping cars, breaking world records, and getting attacked by sharks and tigers are highlights that can never be taken away.
• Fantasy Factory allowed him to achieve not only from a business and media standpoint but also from these bizarre highlights of doing all this fun exciting stuff.
• Rob Dyrdek's journey to success is a highlight reel that nobody can take away from him.

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The Importance of Taking in the Moment

• Rob Dyrdek stops himself and takes in the moment after achieving something incredible.
• He does this to fully appreciate the moment and the hard work that went into achieving it.
• He wants to remember the feeling of achieving something great and use it as motivation for future endeavors.
• Stopping to take in the moment is a way to fully appreciate the journey and the destination.
• It is important to celebrate your successes and use them as motivation for future endeavors.

Moments of Clarity

• Rob Dyrdek talks about a moment of clarity he had while filming for a television show where he allowed an 8-foot shark to bite him.
• He realized that he would never be diving again and that he had allowed the shark to attack him for a television show.
• He talks about how this moment of clarity allowed him to soak in the moment and be present.
• He discusses how he purposefully puts himself in deep levels of presence to remember important moments.
• He shares a memory trait where he remembers things intensely for 10-year chunks.

The Gift and Curse of Memory

• Rob Dyrdek talks about his lack of memory and how it is both a gift and a curse.
• He shares how he lives without failure, regret, or pain because his memories fade away easily.
• He discusses how this forces him to purposefully retain things he wants to remember.
• He talks about how it can be difficult to turn experiences into habits and apply lessons consistently.
• He shares how recognizing and identifying memory traits can help in using them with intent.

Danny Way and Fear

• Rob Dyrdek talks about Danny Way, an amazing skateboarder who jumped the Great Wall of China.
• He discusses how Danny Way doesn't have the ability to recognize fear.
• He talks about how he was scared during a skateboarding shark-attack stunt, while Danny Way wouldn't have been.
• He shares how he needs to add up things to fight through fear, while Danny Way doesn't need to do that.
• He discusses how fear is a natural response and how it can be managed and overcome.

Belief and Discipline

• Rob Dyrdek talks about the importance of belief and discipline in achieving goals.
• He shares how he believed in himself and his ability to become a professional skateboarder.
• He discusses how discipline helped him achieve his goals and how it is necessary for success.
• He talks about how discipline is a muscle that needs to be exercised and how it can be developed over time.
• He shares how discipline can help in managing fear and achieving clarity.

Importance of Progression

• Progression is the key to happiness and ultimate evolution.
• Skateboarding allows for progression through learning foundational steps and building upon them.
• Entrepreneurship also requires understanding foundational elements to find success.
• Understanding how to operationalize and create a sustainable revenue model is crucial.
• Many people have ideas but overlook the operational and financial aspects of turning them into successful businesses.

Self-Evaluation and Learning

• Four years ago, Rob Dyrdek evaluated everything and hired consultants to dissect how to build flawless businesses.
• He spent almost a year developing the system of the Dyrdek Machine, which allowed him to systematize and operationalize his brand.
• He had to learn operational and financial mastery to create a theory for approaching venture capital.
• He learned the type of individual he needs to do business with and the importance of a clear path to sustainability.
• Understanding the financial implications of operationalizing a business is crucial.

Passion and Discipline

• Rob Dyrdek believes that passion and discipline are crucial to achieving goals.
• He had high stakes and a drive to execute when launching his toy line and television program for Walmart and a brand-new show to follow Rob & Big.
• He believes that many people are idea-driven but overlook the battles won or lost and how to operationalize and make money from those ideas.
• He sees a correlation between the progression in skateboarding and entrepreneurship.
• He believes that understanding foundational elements is crucial to finding success in entrepreneurship.

Belief and Mindset

• Rob Dyrdek believes that belief and mindset are crucial to achieving success.
• He believes that people need to believe in themselves and their ideas to achieve success.
• He believes that mindset is everything and that people need to have a positive and optimistic mindset to achieve their goals.
• He believes that people need to be disciplined and focused on their goals to achieve success.
• He believes that people need to be willing to take risks and fail in order to achieve success.

Clarity in Business

• Scaling without the operational side needing to scale along with it.
• Cornerstones to triangulate opportunity off of before looking at it.
• Disruptive, solving a need, being reinvented in the right way by the right individual.
• Having a big enough stake that will interest the investor.
• Realizing the need to own a significant stake of a business.

Clarity in Life

• Creating successful and sustainable businesses.
• Detaching oneself from being emotionally invested in everything.
• Analytically deciding if the ROI on energy is worth it.
• Systematizing based on personal needs, personal mastery, and personal chase of energy.
• Getting clarity by seeking life mastery and designing a life plan.

Start at the End

• Deciding ahead of time what the intent is for the business being built.
• Building a clear path and end in mind for every business.
• Applying the same mentality to life and building life backwards.
• Opening up an insane level of deep clarity.
• Systematizing life to stay balanced and living in the energy.

Personal Mastery

• Building a life with very few things that suck the soul right out of you.
• Learning to live in the energy and having very few things taking energy but giving you energy.
• Having a clear vision of what you want in life.
• Building a fully balanced amazing life.
• Living a life with purpose and intention.

Building a Life Plan

• Rob Dyrdek built his life plan from both material energy and where he wanted to spend his time.
• He didn't deny his needs as an individual from a material side.
• He optimized his clear goal and chased down everything to fill that thing in him.
• The depth of clarity is the greatest form of peace and happiness.
• Clarity means clarity of what he wants and the path.

Transformation

• Rob Dyrdek wasn't getting enough out of being a pro skateboarder.
• He was starting all these random companies and doing all this different stuff.
• He felt generally lost at that age.
• He partied a lot, ate terribly, and was genuinely lazy.
• He promised to be a completely different person in two years from then.

Belief and Discipline

• Rob Dyrdek believes that belief and discipline are the two most important things in achieving one's goals.
• He believes that discipline is the foundation of belief.
• He believes that belief is the foundation of all success.
• He believes that discipline is the ability to do what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it.
• He believes that discipline is the ability to delay gratification.

Hypnotherapy

• Rob Dyrdek sought out a hypnotherapist that had worked with Phil Mickelson to win a major in pro golf.
• The idea was that he was just going to go in there and focus on skating in contests.
• He wanted to maximize all of his other ambitions long-term.
• He put his head down and got to work.
• He believes that hypnotherapy helped him to focus and visualize his goals.

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