How well do you really know yourself?

The year was 2014. Rob Dyrdek is in his late 30's and supremely confident that he knows himself inside and out. Then, he takes a personality assessment. And his whole world is turned upside down. The results became the catalyst to build the strategy and design the life he lives at an incredibly high level today.

In this episode, Rob shares the deep insights he received from that first and subsequent personality assessments that have shaped and refined the way he approaches building and designing his business and his life. It's not just about the results, it's about what you do with the results. How you apply them. How they validate your strengths and highlight weaknesses you may not be able to independently admit to yourself. One of the most transformative processes he has experienced, Rob encourages you to take the time to do the same.

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The present is yours to use how you see fit.

This episode is all about driving your mind into the center, creating balance, and allowing you to experience the present moment at the highest level. It's about more than just trying to force yourself to stay in the moment and experience what is happening. It's about learning to control the present moment with the intention of enhancing future present moments, in which you will experience more joy. You won't always be planning for the future. The best use of a particular present may be simply relaxing and clearing your mind. It may be dealing with an issue from the past, or it may be strategizing. The point is to control your present in a way that you can intentionally use it with purpose. You design your life, design your time, design how you want to expend your limited energy, and all of that culminates to master your present experience.

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Are you really as self-aware as you think you are?

Self-awareness is fundamental to achieving happiness in life. If you don't know who you are, or think you're something you're not, you will not have the proper perspective through which to make decisions. First you must recognize who you are, and that it is different than who you ultimately want to be. You have to get specific about your strategy to become more self-aware. The next step is then becoming time-aware, and understanding the value of your time and how to maximize the quality of it. This is achieved through energy awareness, realizing how the ways in which you spend your time affect you emotionally in the moment. Optimizing for these aspects, and others detailed in the episode, over time, can lead you to becoming Ultra-Aware. This is the state that opens the door to success and happiness.

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What type of reality are you living?

Are you living in a REACTIVE reality, where you allow the things occurring around you to dictate the direction of your life? Getting bounced around like a pinball, believing there's nothing you can do about it, that you are at the mercy of the universe? Or are you living in a PROACTIVE reality, where you're constantly assessing and finding ways to manipulate your situation and guide your reality toward the one you most want to live in? Hopefully, it's the latter, but if not, and you find yourself feeling a lack of control, Rob is here to give you the tools to take charge of your own reality and transform it into the best version it can be. Only by living in a proactive reality can you truly accomplish your goals and live a happy, fulfilled life.

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The best moments and biggest learnings from 100 Episodes!

We did it! 100 Episodes and still we're just getting started. In this very special episode, Rob reflects on the origins of the show, how it evolved, and what he's learned along the way. As a show that spent its early days interviewing Dyrdek Machine portfolio founders, it soon began leaning into advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. But as Rob continued honing his life philosophy, working on a book, designing software, it became clear where the show needed to go moving forward. As it turned into the show you've enjoyed and learned from over the past year, everything seems to be aligning. Rob will also take us through five of the most resonant moments on the journey so far, and provide even greater insight for each.

Thank you for joining us on this adventure. Here's to the next 100!

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Make it simple. Make it measurable. Make yourself happy.

If you create simplicity and measurability in several areas of your life, you will then be able to strategize how to achieve those goals, resulting in happiness upon completing those goals. Then you're able to set new, simple goals, measure success, and create even more happiness. It's a process Rob calls Quantified Joy. In this episode, Rob takes us through his process of creating measurable outcomes and then allowing the numbers to inform the strategy and track the progress. The more you make incremental progress toward those goals, which you can only track if they are quantifiable, the more motivated you become, and the faster you achieve them. The output: Joy. The more you implement this practice in various parts of your life, the more joy you will experience through achievement, and thus the happier your life will become.

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It's probably a lot less than you think…

Have you ever wondered how much you really make per hour of work? It's a bit more complicated than dividing your salary by 40 hours per week. First of all, there's the obligatory taxes we all pay, so subtract those–that money goes straight into Uncle Sam's sizable pockets. Next, you have to account not just for said supposed 40 hour work week, but also the actual amount of time and energy you spend thinking about work, preparing, networking, training, and everything else that contributes to your ability to generate income. Why would Rob spend an entire episode talking about this? Because at the center of his philosophy is Financial Harmony. This means designing your financial life in a way that allows you to maximize your time and energy to spend on things you most enjoy while still generating wealth. In this episode, Rob shares his secrets to creating financial harmony, and provides his playbook to work hard and save harder.

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A simple technique that reveals extraordinary insights about your life.

Asking yourself how you feel about something on a scale from 1-10 is about as simple as it gets. But this practice, if applied consistently over time, begins to show you insights about your overall life, or aspects of your life, that you can then continue to improve to better your overall experience. You can begin with "how do I feel about my life overall today?" as a more general way to start, or you can get more specific. "How do I feel about my relationship today?" "How do I feel about my health and wellbeing today?" "How do I feel about work today?" In this episode, Rob provides a breakdown of the scale he uses to generate consistent results, which over time, illustrate the ups and downs of his existence. This allows him to target elements of each aspect he tracks and identify things that repeatedly cause lower ratings. Developing qualitative awareness can lead to a much higher quality of life.

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Knowledge is power. But learning with the intention of making your life better is a superpower.

We tend to spend an incredible amount of time learning things that have no applicable value to betting our lives. One may call it gathering useless knowledge. While that could make us the hero on trivia night, it does nothing to aid our evolution into a better version of ourselves. Dedicating an inordinate amount of time to researching characters from your favorite TV show or learning everything about golf does nothing to better your overall experience. However, dedicating the same amount of time wasted across many meaningless such pursuits instead to understanding yourself, your work or your time better creates real, tangible value. Learning a new skill set you can apply to increase the value you bring to the world and therefore benefit from personally. These are the aspects of life that provide the fruit of a better, more meaningful existence. Thus, when you focus on enhancing them through organized, purposeful learning, the rewards are exponentially higher.

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Time is the canvas of your entire existence.

Thinking about time design as life design, and using the metaphor of time being the canvas on which you get to paint your life however you want it to be, opens up unlimited possibilities. You are the artist, and by designing your time, you have the opportunity to create the life you desire. It's not just about efficient scheduling day to day. It's actually much broader. If you look at your time more holistically in the past, present and future, you can actually begin to design the evolution of how you spend your time, which equates directly to your quality of life. What percentage of your life do you want to spend working, or devoting to family or health ten or fifteen years from now? It may seem impossible to predict, but if you design it, and create a deliberate path to achieve it, then such goals are absolutely within your grasp.

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