Rory Sutherland Sweat the small stuff

So I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

If you take care of the small things, the big things will take care of themselves.

But these are the things that we can kind of put in this little galaxy here.

Now little fishes and invertebrates aren't the only things we see down there.

They became unable to grasp small objects or fasten buttons.

We're always looking for little, good things that people do.

I personally obsessed about every nut, bolt and washer in these crazy things.

But I it took me about it took me about, I'd say, six months to finally figure out all the little things.

So that's thousands of little grains of pollen there, and there's the pistil there, and these are the little things called trichomes. And that's what makes the flower give a fragrance, and plants actually communicate with one another through their fragrances.

Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year.

And he talked about a lot of the wonderful things that KIPP is doing to take inner city kids and turn them in the direction of college.

And the proteins are all of the little things in your body that are signaling between the cells actually, the machines that are operating that's where the action is.

Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the small things that really matter in life.

And we can violate your expectations in a whole variety of ways about representation, about shape, about color and so forth and it's very primal. And it's an interesting question to ponder, why these things we find these things joyful. Why would we find them joyful? So, here's something that Lionel did a while ago. I like these sort of little things like this.

And actually we don't spend nearly enough money looking for those things, looking for those tiny things that may or may not work, but which, if they do work, can have a success absolutely out of proportion to their expense, their efforts and the disruption they cause.

And I started to realize the hundreds of little things that go right every day, that I didn't even notice, that I took for granted, as opposed to focusing on the three or four that went wrong.

We see the base of the food chain, the plankton, the small things, and we see how those animals are food to animals in the middle of the pyramid, and on so up this diagram.

The things that anger me are often the ones I end up writing about.

Because the DNA of the dinosaur that was trapped in the amber gave us some kind of clue that these tiny things could be trapped and be made to seem precious, rather than looking like nuts.

Because it's all of these things that I love all kind of in one place.

And one of the things we tend to do as adults, again, is we edit things.

Wealth comes to those who make things happen, not to those who let things happen.

And I think that one of the happiest things is the sense that with my children I've been able to introduce them into the very small circle of humans who are lucky enough, or possibly stupid enough, to still climb trees.

And that's why we continue to grab technology because we want those things. Those things are good.

They re thinking about the same things.

I like to build stuff.

I've always liked to build stuff.

I put things in the wrong way.

(d) Examining objects and sites

Are these yours?

Don't touch these.

Are these your things?

So the first thing we're going to do are the things that don't require a lot of robotics.

I always relate things to kitchen ry.

It is all of those things.

I have a lot of things to do.

Don't say such things.

Bring me those things I've asked for.

Why do these things happen to me?

Bohazza calls it as it is

Ferries or small aircraft connect to the smaller islands.

So, I began to make things again. This is another series of objects made of old computers from my basement.

And in fact, making things using technology and I'm being serious here, even though I'm using my sarcastic voice I won't hold on. Making things, you know making things actually does give me a lot of joy.

So we build a lot of things.