Thread by @MrJacobEspi

8 years ago, Thrill One told Rob Dyrdek he wasn’t someone anyone would invest in.

Six years later, he sold them his production company and cleared over $100 million...

“I had to change the way that I was living to ultimately create the energy to attract the people, knowledge, the everything I would need to grow into the person that I had designed for myself.” - @robdyrdek

Dyrdek’s podcast episode with @shaanvp and @theSamParr is one of my favorites of the year.

It starts as a conversation about a skateboarder turned businessman and then quickly transitions to Dyrdek explaining how to win at life.

LFG!

A few quick data points about our boy Rob:

⁃Built 17 companies
⁃Sold 6 of them
⁃Netted 450 million
⁃Invests his salary in real estate

Everything he builds is built to sell from the beginning.

After realizing he wasn't building the life he wanted, he hired coaches and consultants to show him how to get it done.

Now he starts every project with the end goal in mind.

This approach has allowed him mastered “time/energy compacity.”

Here is how he breaks down his life:

⁃30% business
⁃30% sleeping
⁃30% family
⁃10% health

These are averages.

And he tracks everything

He had a dev person build him a Google Calendar plug to see everything on a dashboard.

(Measure what matters!)

This system is so dialed he had this data on the top of his head:

He shot 250 episodes of television in 2021--this was exactly 4% of his time.

@robdyrdek also has qualitative measures.

Each day he rates how he feels about his life, health, and work on a 0-10 scale.

“I a human optimization. I am optimized for what, though? To be happy. That's why you're playing the game.”

My favorite part.

Each morning he emails his wife with what he is working on, why he is doing it and puts a love quote on top.

(Stealing this)

Four more gems I'll leave you with:

1) Two places that get you nowhere: Dwelling and negative, and being hopeful and wishing.

2) Life is lived is when you are problem-solving, creating the future, or experiencing the present.

3) Your present is based on the decisions you have made in the past.

4) You can live a life with no negative thoughts if you live in a state of experiencing, creating, or problem-solving.

If you dug this, be sure to subscribe to @myfirstmilpod and give the first tweet in this thread an RT.

If you are into positive energy and leadership, give me follow while you are at it >> @MrJacobEspi

Hungry for more?

Here is another great thread about the pod @ShaanVP just RT’d 👏

https://twitter.com/andymewborn/status/1445869905815879682