Details matter. When people make things with quality, it’s easy to tell. Do you want something that is one of a kind or mass produced? Sure, it depends on the quality of craftsmanship, but generally if the craftsman is experienced, the piece will be better produced by hand. Think for example of the Mona Lisa. Would you rather keep that piece in your home or something like the Mac Desktop photo on your wall?
Detail comes from care about the eventual product. Care generally comes from passion — a desire to make something great.
What creates a master painter, musician, businessman or anything? Repetition.
Is it easier to repeat something we enjoy?
Why fight our nature and try to become something we’re not? Nature literally makes it easiest to be who we are most naturally!
Some might say that the difference between the quality of work of someone who has done things for a long time and someone who is a newbie is negligible. However, it’s these small differences that set the good apart from the great. To have added detail that makes a piece marginally better can put it in the top echelon. Realistically we’re all just steps away from greatness. What matters is the detail we put into crafting our life. The difference is a cold shower in the morning, a smoothie instead of cereal, or an extra fifteen minutes building what we love that can shift us from living a normal life to one that is extraordinary.