Jimmy DiResta

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2,935 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto · 532: Attacked with Ideas · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

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A a lot of times I'll make a fake deadline for myself and and I n I'm completely one hundred percent aware that it's fake, but I know that I have so many things in my to do list that

A good example is the go kart.

I had to do this cohort commercial, I had to do this other thing, and I had two weeks to finish the go kart and it was a critical part of the shell, the outer aluminum shell.

I didn't really have a clear path on how I was gonna do it.

But I basically said to myself, if I don't g have a good start by Tuesday, I'm gonna fail in fourteen more days.

If I so I gave myself this Tuesday afternoon, I remember when I got back from the cohort commercial.

It's like if I don't if I don't have something solid by Tuesday, I'm failing in the next fourteen days.

But in the back of my mind, I'm like, you got fourteen days to figure this out.

Don't be

Don't be such a wuss.

And but by the end of that Tuesday I had a really solid direction.

But I gave myself that as if like, if I don't do this, I'm gonna fail.

But I had a full two weeks to really figure it out after that.

But occasionally I put that pressure on myself where if I don't have a solid idea by tomorrow night, I'm uh I'm failing at this.

But I still have five more days after that.

I I have I've been practicing that for years, even though it's really not something I've spoken about and it's not something I make a p conscious decision to do.

I just say those other five days are more important.

importantly filled up with these other things.

So even though this deadline is after those

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