- He's an American skateboarder,
actor producer entrepreneur,
and reality TV star.
He's one of the biggest supporters of professional
skateboarding and one of the sports most
well known characters.
He was labeled one of the most influential
skateboarders of all time by Fox Weekly.
He's Rob Dyrdek and here are his top 10 rules for success.
- I think when it comes to understanding,
tackling fear and relentless problem solving.
The reality of learning tricks,
you have to try it over and over and over and over.
Keep adjusting every little aspect of your body
to ultimately get it to work.
When you get it to work it's like,
this incredible oh my God I can't believe I learned this
and that progression drives you even further.
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I've always been,
have an idea and execute it to a fault.
What I had to learn over the last few years is
you can't do it by yourself.
I really would have said years ago I don't do it by myself.
I got all these great partners
but the reality of it is,
I would have my hands in so much and not delegate
properly and put in the right verticals on how
and what you want to accomplish
and go out and accomplish it.
I just willed everything into existence.
More than anything it's about
what do you love to do the most and what are you best at?
Do that all the time and then put everybody else in
to fill in the rest.
That's what I've really been focusing on
these last couple years.
Make no mistake,
even every person that I want to move forward with,
all I care about is your greatest quality is that
you want to get better tomorrow than you were today.
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It was that
big step for me to have money to start
exploring different entrepreneurial,
darts if you will,
at a skate shop that lasted about three months.
That was where I first discovered
stay out of retail.
Started a hip hop label.
Had a rap label for a little while.
That's when I really discovered the importance of
making sure your partner that's equally as motivated
and driven as you not lazy.
More than that,
stick in your lane.
Just 'cause you think it's cool that you're a
pro skateboarder and you got a hip hop label,
you don't know what you're doing.
You got no business in that.
In that time period I had
refocused on just all things skate.
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There's this air of transparency.
The entrepreneurs that I love the most
they'll be honest about everything
and they'll tell you exactly how it is good or bad
and will just put a stake in the ground on a opinion
but not drive it home.
That's the stuff I respect the most.
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The greatest energy that you can live in is that
excitement of something coming around the corner
whether it's a
new job or a new moment of something big happening.
There's that energy.
I've figured out how to live in that alive.
I think that becomes incredibly motivating.
Then when you see the results of making yourself better,
how much better you get
and how it affects the world around you,
it just gives you that much more motivation like,
if I just get better and better
everything gets bigger and stronger and better.
That motivation and drive comes from that desire
to grow and create.
Where I ultimately see myself
I just haven't quite got there.
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For the most part I don't take meetings before 11.
I build my whole schedule around
my morning and the working outside of it
just so it's not compromised.
The only way it really becomes compromised
if you begin to schedule
into your time.
For me it's really important that I really don't
take a meeting.
If that's shooting TV,
doing voiceover doing whatever.
Whatever it is it never happens before 11 down here.
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I have had so many failures at so many levels and I think
I only really started to get it and grow up
a year and a half ago when I finally brought on
a CEO for my company.
He really began
to help me learn to continue to grow and then start
surrounding yourself with mentors and really smart people
that have done what you're trying to do
or what you may want to do so you can learn from them
and that really revolutionized
my entire process
because before I was making millions losing millions
making millions buying this doing this.
I wrote produced financed films.
Lose a couple million like (mumbles)
I was so driven that it didn't matter to me.
I just wanted to get things done.
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What you never want to do is put unrealistic
expectations on somebody
that you're trying to do business with because
it will strain a friendship.
You got to be smart to keep people
in their lane and have them excel at what they're best at.
You don't want to have someone in your particular crew
take over the accounting if they're bad with numbers.
The same way you don't want them to do design,
if they suck at designing,
just 'cause you need someone else to work on design stuff.
I think in all aspects of life it's always much funner
when you surround yourself with people that
you enjoy being around.
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You have to focus on always learning.
It's cliche but the reality of it is
is if you take action and try and fail
you're going to learn a lot by the time you try it again
and you will build a foundation of experience
that's going to be ultimately the rock that allows you
to find success or follow your dreams.
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I don't know if I've always though global
but I've always thought big
and I think the difference is now I have it so clear
on what I want to do for the next 10 years that
I've slowed down because I know I'm building this
great machine and
it's going to take me a couple years
to get it perfectly in order before I finally turn it on.
When I turn it on
it will be bigger than anything I've ever done
or ever will do and will ultimately represent my legacy
and I realize that's cryptic but
that's how far out I'm already
prepared for what I'm doing next.
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- Thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed.
I made this video because Jorge Gallegos asked me to.
If there's a famous entrepreneur that you
want me to profile next,
leave it in the comments below and I'll see what I can do.
I'd also love to know which of Rob Dyrdek's top 10 rules
meant the most to you.
Leave it in the comments.
I'll join in the discussion.
Thank you so much for watching Dreams To Believe
and I'll see you soon.