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The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions

From a Job To a Craft

The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions

Robin Sharma

Education

4.8886 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This Mastery Session is all about how to leap from a job to a craft.

To lift your work from a job to a craft, install the perception that no work is ordinary.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions.

0:05.0

Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the leader who had no title, founder of the Titan Academy,

0:11.0

and welcome to this Mastery Session. This mastery session is all about how to leap

0:15.3

from a job to a craft. Let me tell you about Bert, if I may. So a number of years ago at our office we were doing the renovation and a

0:26.1

gentleman shows up and his role in the renovation was to install carpets but this

0:31.9

man he was from Ireland,

0:34.5

installed carpets like Van Gogh painted.

0:38.2

He installed carpets like Lady Gaga performs.

0:43.8

He installed carpets like Hendrix played the guitar.

0:48.9

I mean, he was the Jimmy Hendrix of carpet installing.

0:52.0

He was the Warren Buffett of laying down carpet.

0:56.4

And so I want to just tell you what he did, like this is a man who didn't see his job as a job.

1:01.8

He saw his work as a job. He saw his work as a craft and all these years later I still remember

1:07.2

him because your work can linger in the minds of your customers long after you've met them if you see your job not as a job

1:18.0

but as a craft.

1:19.0

And ultimately, leadership and high performance, it's about impact.

1:22.0

It's about impact.

1:22.7

It's about using your work to live on in the minds of those you've touched.

1:28.1

And if you actually think like that, you'll become legendary.

1:31.1

And so what he did was he said I just watched him work and he did his work with such

1:36.8

OAD obsessive attention to detail. He did his work with such passion. You could still see the

1:45.2

sparkle in his eye and please never lose the sparkle in your eye. I still remember I'm saying, you know, I usually lay down the carpet but I'm

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