Rob Dyrdek on the Power of Living With Intention
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
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🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Rob Dyrdek about finding happiness and fulfillment by managing his time and energy in more intentional ways, transitioning from self-preservation to generational preservation, how journaling and applying Stoic principles has changed his life for the better, and more.
Rob Dyrdek is an American entrepreneur, actor, producer, reality TV personality, and former professional skateboarder. He is best known for creating and hosting the MTV reality and variety shows Rob & Big, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, and Ridiculousness. In 2016, he founded the Dyrdek Machine, a business investment firm and incubator that targets startups. In 2021, Dyrdek started the business-focused podcast, Build with Rob, and he also founded the Do-Or-Dier Visionary Foundation, a non-profit organization aimed at providing entrepreneurship opportunities to underrepresented youth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:15.6 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage |
| 0:23.7 | Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.7 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoke philosophers. We explore at length |
| 0:35.7 | How these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:43.5 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:48.9 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead |
| 0:57.9 | bring |
| 1:04.9 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast |
| 1:12.5 | So several years ago now I was at Tom Bill use house the |
| 1:17.2 | wonderful podcaster and thinker who's very good to me over the years and I'm in the green room waiting to go on and who walks in but Rob Deertick |
| 1:26.5 | The professional skateboarder host of basically every show on |
| 1:31.0 | MTV someone who I watched a lot of when I was in college when I was hanging out and |
| 1:37.1 | I've always loved his stuff. I thought I was a fascinating guy and I got to know his cousin also a star in the show drama |
| 1:45.2 | Who'd read the books and I guess drama had turned Rob Deertick on to them |
| 1:49.2 | He was sort of vaguely familiar with who I was and then I got a message from him like years later that he had been reading the books |
| 1:55.7 | And we and we became friends |
| 1:59.2 | And you'll see in this episode we kick off our discussion with a chat about the very large invisible |
| 2:05.2 | Marcus are really a statue that is behind him in his office |
| 2:09.6 | The office where in addition to you know overseeing his television empire out of he's a serial entrepreneur |
| 2:16.1 | He's founded several businesses |
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