**Details Matter.**
One of the five core tenets of my work with people is simple:
**Details matter.**
Yesterday I decided to make an old favorite—something I haven't made in over 20 years.
Tapioca pudding.
I whisked the egg into the milk, then confidently poured the entire box of tapioca into the pot. Let it sit for five minutes and started heating it.
Only...
It never boiled. It turned into something closer to wet concrete. There was no way this was becoming pudding. So I went back to the box. Not the front. The directions.
*"3 tablespoons of Minute Tapioca."*
Tablespoons. Not the whole box. I'd used about eight times too much. The funny part wasn't the ruined pudding. It was realizing I'd never actually read the instructions. I'd glanced. Assumed. Filled in the details with my mind.
How often do we do that?
In conversations. In relationships. In our work. In our assumptions about ourselves.
The little details don't always seem important... Until they become the whole recipe.
Details matter.