Robin Sharma (author of The Leader Who Had No Title and founder of the Titan Academy) recounts a brief anecdote about a passport photo session to illustrate the value of obsessive attention to detail, caring about one’s work, and pursuing mastery by doing even small tasks exceptionally well. He contrasts deep professionalization and granular craftsmanship with societal superficiality and speed.
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Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the Leader who Had no Title, founder of the Titan Academy, and I just had my passport pictures taken. My passport is full. And the reason I'm sharing that is because the woman who cut the pictures did so with such oad obsessive attention to detail. And I complimented her on it. And I said to her, you know, you do your work like you really care about it. And we got into this whole conversation about caring, and that sounds like such a simple word, yet it's so rare. I've been seeing this what I call and I'm talking about it a lot in my new podcasts, but it's the collective deep professionalization of business. You know, we've gone from a cult of rigor to a society of superficiality where everyone wants to just do things quickly, put the work out fast, versus getting granular, bringing on your A game and dialing in to doing the best work, no matter what it is, even if it's the seemingly smallest work that doing. And that's how mastery is made. So I wanted to remind you oad obsessive attention to detail, really bring on the caring and do your work like Van Gogh painted.