Now, I'm not a fan of his management style but I do quite like his insistence that even the inside or backside of his products be beautiful, even if the only person who might see it was the repairman.
This is why I was being driven crazy while I was painting our bedroom this summer.
You see, whoever painted the room before me was sloppy and messy. It looked like they didn't even try to protect the floor as there were paint splatters all over the room.
Then there's the person who did the drywall which is uneven and not sanded well at all.
And that's just in the room itself!
Now we come to the closet. Crooked walls, brush strokes on the floor and ceiling. Clearly both the person who built the room and the person who painted it were not striving for excellence.
I did.
There I was on the floor of the closet painting as carefully as I could.
Someone might say, "But who's ever going to see that back corner that's going to be hidden by boxes and clothes?"
To that question I have three responses:
- I saw it.
- I have to live in that room every day knowing the work I put into it. Even if it wasn't my room and just a job I did, I would have to walk around knowing whether I did my best or not.
- And one more reason I'll get to a little later.
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