Kevin Hart & Joe Rogan, Jay Shetty and Rob Dyrdek, and Bear Grylls
Dadly Best of the Week
We continue with our Dadly Best of the Week: the best podcasts, articles, book chapters, interviews, quotes, recipes, eating establishments, etc. that warrant attention. So, here goes this week’s I Am Dadly Best of the Week.
Best Podcast #1
Joe Rogan Experience with Kevin Hart
Dudes, this is THE podcast to listen to. Save it, bookmark it. Go back to it. Kevin Hart drops so much positivity, real talk and advice into his sit-down with Joe Rogan. You will be inspired to take action after listening to this. Do it now.
Best Podcast #2
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Rob Dyrdek on dropping out of school and becoming an entrepreneur
Jay Shetty is a former monk who is now an award winning host, storyteller and viral content creator. Since launching his video channel in 2016, Shetty’s viral wisdom videos have garnered over 4 billion views and gained over 20 million followers globally. This makes him one of the most viewed people on the internet internationally. Shetty was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30Class of 2017 for being a game-changer and influencer in the world of Media. Jay’s daily show HuffPost Live #FollowTheReader, where he interviewed the likes of Russell Brand, Tim Ferriss and Deepak Chopra reached 1 million people daily. Jay aims to share knowledge at the pace we want entertainment, something he likes to call “making wisdom go viral.” He has created content for and partnered with Snapchat, Facebook, National Geographic, Nasdaq and HuffPost to name a few.
Rob Dyrdek relentlessly pursed his childhood dreams of being a professional athlete at 16 years old and propelled him into the world of business before most people entered college. Surrounded by entrepreneurs in his youth, Dyrdek quickly learned the power of building brands. At 18 years old, he used his knowledge gained from the skateboard industry to create his first company.This “outlier” experience helped him to develop and grow both his own brands and increase the value of his brand partners as he was quickly becoming an influential professional skateboarder. By leveraging his influence and designing new concepts and ideas, he helped turn a rising footwear and apparel brand into a $500 million international company. He used that same expertise to build skate brands later in his career launching the world’s first true professional skateboarding league Street League Skateboarding and a first of its kind skateboarding channel, ETN.
That same approach to brand development led him to co-create and executive produce his first television show, Rob & Big on MTV. After the success of this first show, he created Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory showcasing his Do-Or-Dier® mentality towards entrepreneurship. Constantly evolving and taking calculated risks, Dyrdek beat world records with his physical feats while continuing his endeavors, launching several new brands while structuring multi-platform integrated partnerships.
In this terrific episode, Shetty and Dyrdek discuss:
- Pig Out Chips
- Rob’s principles for investing in businesses
- Seeing business as philosophy
- Optimizing for self-belief
- Leveraging your unfair advantage
- Being in tune with energy and getting to a place of lightness
- Looking at your parts of your life in a negative or positive way and optimize for positive
- Defending happy
- Designing your life for happiness
- Why he would never do ridiculousness today
- The cornerstones of transition
- Finding clarity in your life
- Having a deep commitment to mastering life
- Living through cycles
- Building towards constant flow state
- Deeping your connection with the universe
- Family: with Rob Dyrdek
- Being overwhelmed with happiness
- Living with intention
- The Final 5
- Progression is the key to happiness
Best Article
The Key to Better Students is Getting Them Outside
Katie Arnold writes on Outside.com that the best schools know that kids learn when their noses aren’t shoved in textbooks all the time. Arnold posits that if schools are serious about improving student scores—and lives—they’d be wise to start looking at the type of education that doesn’t come from a textbook.
Arnold writes:
“In the remote village of St. Mary’s (population: 541), near the confluence of the Andreafsky and Yukon Rivers, schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th grade regularly spend time getting practical lessons in the outdoors. They practice subsistence skills like fishing, mending nets, making harpoons, and gathering mushrooms and berries. As part of the “relevant instruction” program, launched in 2003 by St. Mary’s School District superintendent Dave Herbert, students head out on one- to five-day trips to learn about the indigenous Yupik way of life and harvest food for the winter. (There are more than 20,000 Yupik in southwestern Alaska, where the school is located.) The youngest kids forage for blackberries. Middle school students go ice fishing, set nets for whitefish, and harvest tundra tea. High schoolers even hunt moose. Afterward, back in St. Mary’s, the schools host an annual Fall Feed for the community, sharing the bounty of what they gathered and learned.
The trips blend state-mandated academics with experiential learning. Students keep daily journals and answer writing prompts, use GPS coordinates to plot waypoints like campsites, collect data on the types of flora they encounter, and measure and count everything they catch or harvest. In a 2012 interview with Alaska Public Media, Herbert said the program has “built a sense of pride in the school” and in the larger community. (He did not respond to my interview request, however.)
In addition, the boost in morale has translated to higher attendance rates and fewer suspensions in St. Mary’s—a correlation supported by national data. In its 2010 report Back to School: Back Outside, the National Wildlife Foundation collected numerous recent studies showing that students exposed to outdoor education perform better in reading, math, and science; spend less time using electronic screens and social media; and glean lifelong leadership skills. Even short forays outside make a difference: a 2009 review in the Journal of Environmental Education cited nine recent studies showing that time spent in the school garden improves students’ academic performance and develops environmental stewardship that lasts into adulthood.”
Best TV Show
In this interactive series from Netflix, your and your kid(s) make key decisions to help Bear Grylls survive, thrive and complete missions in the harshest environments on Earth.
My daughter loves making Bear eat the grub rather than the termites in the first episode of this fun series. Highly recommend watching this with your kids!
