94: Protect Yourself From What You Can’t Control
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Rob Dyrdek
5 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Optimizing what you can control can protect you from what you can’t.
Your life is a series of interconnected systems that connect with other larger systems, which connect with even larger global systems. The farther away from you these systems are, the less ability you have to control them. However, by optimizing the systems you have the most control over, you can lessen the effect of those larger, uncontrollable systems on your life.
Rob breaks these systems down into 3 orders: First Order systems are those you have complete control over – your habits, your spending, your diet, etc. Second Order systems you have some control over, such as your job. Third Order systems are so big, you have zero control over them, like the weather or the global economy. In this episode, Rob explains how the mastery your First Order systems will ultimately determine the quality of your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Your existence is a series of interconnected systems that connect to a series of interconnected |
| 0:06.5 | systems that make up your reality. The first order systems, those you completely control. |
| 0:13.2 | The second order systems, you partially control those. And the third order systems, you have |
| 0:19.2 | no control over whatsoever. |
| 0:22.4 | And it is so important that you master first order systems because coming in hot today with a new enhanced version of the machine mindset and and really really |
| 0:58.2 | pushing in to another level of clarity for everyone that listened to this show to to find |
| 1:05.1 | a deeper sense of understanding of the idea that I speak about when I speak about, you know, you are a system, |
| 1:12.6 | you create systems, you exist in a universe of systems, and you are fully integrated into |
| 1:21.7 | this entire world. But today, what I want to share with you in this episode is how, you know, there's actually three |
| 1:30.3 | different types of systems and these three systems all integrate together to make up your |
| 1:36.1 | entire reality. |
| 1:37.7 | And if you can begin to look at life through this lens and begin to look at it through |
| 1:43.8 | these three different systems and build |
| 1:47.2 | that awareness in yourself of understanding that like, okay, this first order system that is |
| 1:54.5 | completely controlled by me, if I know that if I build these systems and create and operate these systems that foundationally, I have complete control of them, the quality of them, and how I act within them, regardless of what happens in the world, and then integrate with second order systems, which is ultimately things that you are a part of, |
| 2:22.2 | but you don't have total control over. You just have influence over. And then ultimately, |
| 2:29.4 | you know, the third order systems, the things that you have no control over, that you want to basically |
| 2:36.0 | create first order systems to protect you from, right? Think about that. And let me lay out |
| 2:44.1 | some examples of what these systems are so that it can begin to make sense to you right now. |
| 2:49.0 | Because I know you're like, what? I thought we were a machine. |
| 2:52.6 | Now we're systems on systems and now we're first order system and second order and third. |
| 2:56.6 | Where are we, Rob? |
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