Sewing Pants and Projecting Confidence

[upbeat music] How you feeling this morning?

Good.

Um, a little rushed, but-

A little rushed?

Yeah.

Tell me more.

That sounds crazy now that I said it out loud, 'cause feel like I've been the one holding up the show, but-

That makes sense that you would feel rushed if you're the one...

Yeah.

[laughs]

You know? That makes perfect sense.

I'm confused.

But I feel like I've been wasting too much time.

You've been distracted a lot.

Yeah.

You've been hyper-focusing a lot actually lately.

Okay.

In terms of? Oh-

Like, you have been sewing a pair of pants for our kid-

Yeah

... and you have let go any and all other responsibilities-

[laughs]

... due to focus on said project.

Yeah.

I, well, so you know, in true ADHD fashion, if I don't really focus on it, it's only gonna get 85% done.

I hear you.

I have enough of those projects.

Which us- It's not a huge...

I would say that's not my biggest ADHD tendency.

I'm very much a, like, work until you get it done, but that does require dropping all other-

Everything else

... yeah, responsibilities-

Yeah.

Like, you can't-

... which I'm happy to do, but I have a family.

[laughs]

You can't work within the constraints of a work day.

No.

No, no, no, no.

Like, if I say you have eight hours, you're like, "No, I have until my body gives out and I fall asleep." [laughs]

You're like, "I'm gonna waste the first four." [laughs]

You're in charge of everything else.

I'm gonna waste the first four 'cause I think I only need four hours to get it done.

Turns out I needed six to eight.

[laughs]

And so the next two to four after the work hours, yeah, those are...

You know, if you want it done-

I'm gonna pretend-

... you're gonna have to sacrifice

... that I'm listening to you and say, "Yeah, yeah, just a few more minutes.

Oh, no, no, I totally got that.

Yeah, no problem.

Dinner? Yeah, I'm on it."

Yeah, I'll come back to it.

And then it'll circle around to about 8:00, and I'll suddenly come up for air and realize that you did dinner and that you... [laughs]

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

All that's over, and I'm still...

You don't do that very often, but-

No.

No, no, no

...

it has been full commit.

It's my working style, though, when it comes to projects.

Working style feels generous.

I'm not sure it's-

Yeah, that definitely sounded like you were rebranding it-

[laughs]

... for-

I think my gift might be rebranding ADHD.

[laughs]

I don't know.

I think it kinda just makes you sound maybe-

To you-

... maybe-

But I think it sounds pretty good-

To other people, other people

... to people that haven't heard it too much.

[laughs]

[laughs] You're right.

You've just got a track record in terms of-

You're right, you're right

... being like, "Well, this is just bullshit."

Yeah.

But other people haven't heard the bullshit before.

[laughs]

So...