62: When to Pivot in Life
Build With Rob
Rob Dyrdek
5 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We set goals and work hard to achieve them every day, so it’s no wonder we become attached to both our goals and the processes by which we work toward them. But the world around us is chaotic and ever-changing, so there is no way to continue to navigate the obstacles and challenges in your path without being highly adaptive. This is true of any goal in business or in life, and the same commitment to recognizing when a pivot is necessary applies. As you pursue any goal, the world changes, and you change. Take that into account and don’t be afraid to evolve both your strategy and the goal itself as need be to stay on track. A pivot does not mean you have failed at your original vision. It means you are smart enough to know the definition of success is fluid.
We have not one but two special guests on this episode. First, Kenny Turner, the Director of NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship – www.nfte.com) joins us to discuss their partnership with the Do-Or-Dier Visionary Foundation and how NFTE helps young people learn an entrepreneurial mindset. They have educated 1.2million young entrepreneurs since 1987, including DODVF Director, Charles Choice.
NFTE IG: @nfte
Then we have the winner of the NFTE / DODVF See It. Believe It. Do It. Challenge, Amylah Charles, an entrepreneur, activist and entertainer. She shares her vision for a socially conscious hair company.
Amylah IG: @curlycrownzhaircare
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Build with Rob. It is Rob Deerdeck, your host. Today, man, it's about adaptivity and flexibility. |
| 0:11.3 | How can we just be more adaptive and more flexible? How do we allow our mind share to be more flexible |
| 0:17.7 | so that we learn to think with an adaptive mind where when we get stuck |
| 0:23.1 | or get put into a position that we know that we have to go through the process to think |
| 0:28.7 | through what is the change that we can make to push things forward you know uh and i really started |
| 0:34.6 | thinking that because today uh we have another special episode featuring another great nonprofit, NFTE, an amazing organization that teaches entrepreneur programs. |
| 0:50.8 | We just did another see it, believe it, do it challenge with them, where we again give a donation to the nonprofit and then provide $20,000 a non-delutive capital to a group of their students who have graduated their programs and have business ideas that they get to pitch. |
| 1:12.6 | And of course, you know, we're out here doing. We're preaching life and business visions. |
| 1:17.0 | In this particular episode, again, we have the director of Nifty and then a young lady who has a |
| 1:23.8 | really cool business. And it's just an all-around, you know, young superstar in the making |
| 1:29.0 | in all aspects of life as a guest on the show today. You know, but one of the really cool things |
| 1:35.9 | about their program, it's super refined because it's been, you know, they've been, you know, |
| 1:41.1 | essentially teaching entrepreneur programs, you know, since 1987, really one of the first groups to really ever do it. |
| 1:49.7 | And they've evolved over time. |
| 1:51.6 | And now they have these sort of like eight foundational pillars that they teach, you know, students and people that come into their program that want to learn the entrepreneurial mindset |
| 2:02.9 | and really different aspects of business. But, you know, all the great stuff, creativity |
| 2:08.1 | and innovation, opportunity recognition, future orientation, initiative and self-reliance, |
| 2:14.5 | comfort with risk, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, but above all, |
| 2:20.9 | flexibility and adaptability, you know? And it's like, it's so important in life to be thinking |
| 2:28.9 | about everything through that lens of being flexible and adaptable, right? And, you know, |
| 2:35.3 | they describe it as the ability and willingness to change actions and plans to overcome present and future challenges. |
| 2:42.7 | You know what I mean? And that's just, it's so important in all aspects of anything you're |
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