14 - The Little Things aren't so Little

B-RAD with Brad Toews

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.” — Booker T. Washington

Have you ever installed a door? The process requires framing and positioning a doorjamb, with special attention to the hinges.

When you've installed a door well you don't even notice it's done correctly, it just works. And when you use the door you don't think about the hinges, the doorjamb or the frame, you simply walk through.

One of the most important pieces of a swinging door is also the smallest. It's the pin of the door hinge. Without the pin, the door doesn't pivot and move. It's stuck in place.

The pin is crucial.

I'm about to introduce my first podcast acronym.

PIN.

A little piece of hardware in a hinge. A little password that lets you withdraw money from your bank account. A little thing with a lot of potential.

You have to listen to the podcast to hear what P I N stands for, but I will say this, Newton's Laws of Motion are involved, and no, it's not boring like 7th-grade physical science class.

Do small actions have significant outcomes? Yes, they do.

Join me in this episode as I talk about how to hang a door properly (as taught by my builder-father), consider the burn-rate of rocket fuel in the Apollo space missions, and explore the potential of small hinges to swing big doors.

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