We recently connected with Josh Dikken and have shared our conversation below.
Josh, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
I’m actually writing this high in the morning because I couldn’t get myself motivated to do some basic work I’m actually pretty excited to do and the high helped kick me into gear, but also I think is one of the main culprits in that same problem. Helping perpetuate it.
I think in the short term I’m not particularly resilient. I love to cave to what feels good even knowing full well that it isn’t what I actually want. But I at least am honest with my self. Which I think gives me resilience in the long term.
I think I’m resilient purely because I think I can actually do just about anything if I want it badly enough, and I’m honest about why I’m acting how I am in the moment. Then everything is just a choice you make, and you have a long life to do it, even if I got high this morning again and wrote about NOT caving to the short term feelings. I’ll get there eventually step by step.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Ok I do video production and content writing and creation for my company LunchBox Productions. We’ve got a small team and we really like figuring out what content & strategy is best for every project. Seriously video is so fun.
We’ve grown in both commercial and narrative spaces which is exciting for us! Both are such excellent industries to flex your creative problem solving.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I think I just decided I wanted to do video production, found some connections to people who did it for a living, and just continued to show up and learn. And I think that’s the same thing it will always be. What you actually spend your time doing is where you’ll go. Being talented in areas helps for sure, but it’s about effort. Which I’m quite swingy with. But I have lots of time so just need to keep doing reps on this stuff and I’ll get where I’m aiming.
My advice for people early in their journey (which I absolutely still am this is year 5 of me doing this only that’s nothing) is just ask to help people that are where you wanna be, and learn from them. This also gives you a community to do the work with, which helps with consistency even if you aren’t working on the same exact things or goals.
And also stretch out how long you have to accomplish your goals. That’s advice from Adam Savage and it’s so good for relieving pressure.
Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?
Probably ADHD. In the process of getting evaluated.
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