Detail is the Enemy
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
In this episode, I make the argument that unwarranted detail and granularity are the greatest enemies to growth. We don't begin the journey because we don't have all the answers. We don't begin the youtube channel because we don't have all the right equipment. We stay in bad relationships because we can't fathom the logistics of what could come next.
These are all examples of details becoming larger than the objective. The truth is, is you want something, simplify and move toward that thing. The detail will ultimately work itself out. This process is all part of mastery. Details are accumulated and mastered over a lifetime, not before you take your first step.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. In this episode, we're going to talk about detail being the enemy. Nluence, getting in the way of the simplicity required to get things done and live your best life. I'm So the other day I was working on kind of like a little movie trailer, but for a book. |
| 0:35.1 | So if you can picture a movie trailer, same concept, but for a new |
| 0:39.5 | release. And I was walking down the hallway to go start writing it, and business partner of mine |
| 0:46.0 | said, hey, you forgot the book. You'll probably want this if you're going to go write a 90-second |
| 0:50.3 | speech about it. And I've read the book, and my response was, you know, detail is the enemy here. |
| 1:00.3 | Basically, meaning in a 90-second window, you want simplicity, right? You want to make your point. |
| 1:09.0 | You want to elicit some emotion, and that's it. Right? You want someone to understand a simple message and feel something. And my thought moved to, there's something more here. Right. There is this idea about detail that just like in this situation could derail the entire point of the activity, |
| 1:30.3 | of the action, human beings are emotional. Complexity is often the reason we stay stagnant. |
| 1:41.8 | Right? If we can't feel excited and get behind something, we don't do it. And the granularity of things |
| 1:49.8 | stops us a lot of the time. So my thought was if we could take something from this message, |
| 1:54.5 | this situation, and apply it to other things, it might connect some dots, right? And so here's |
| 1:59.4 | another example. I remember when I first started |
| 2:02.2 | video stuff, and we're talking, I don't know, five, six years ago now, first time I was doing it |
| 2:08.1 | seriously. I had a camera, but it wasn't the camera traditional YouTubers used. So I thought, |
| 2:15.6 | all right, I'll save up, and I'll get that. And ultimately, |
| 2:18.3 | I got that camera. And I realized my lighting was off. It didn't look like how other people's, like, the best |
| 2:25.0 | YouTubers look when their videos are lit. So I thought, you know, I need to get a new light. And I got a new light. |
| 2:35.0 | And then I thought, well, my editing is subpar, right? |
| 2:37.8 | It's average at best. |
| 2:39.0 | I need to start studying to see how people edit. |
| 2:43.0 | And so I watched YouTube videos for a week, maybe two weeks. |
| 2:47.6 | And I think you understand where I'm going, right? |
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