Kodawari

This was posted on Reddit in early October :

My job is putting wristbands on people at a museum. My boss says I’m the best wristbander at the place. Here’s all my wristband-related wisdom.

When you’re getting a wristband put on, always put out your wrist with the palm of your hand facing up. That way it won’t stick to your arm hair.

If the adhesive part of the wristband doesn’t align and sticks to you, fold it over.

To take off a wristband, grab the loose part on the interior and pull it in the opposite direction it’s facing, towards the adhesive.

When putting a wristband on a small child, make sure you ask them if it’s too loose/tight.

As for dealing with a child’s wrist size, you can either wrap the band around the wrist until it fits, or you can make a “whale’s tail” with the band (stick the adhesive strip to the underside of the band so that it fits the wrist and the rest of it will stick straight up). You can either cut off the excess or let it stay depending on the child’s preference.

If you know you will be wristbanding a lot of children, it can be helpful to cut some short in advance so that they’re sized appropriately.

If someone obviously wants to put a wristband on you, don’t try to take it and do it yourself unless you’re confident you can do it. You probably can’t. It’s hard to do one-handed.

When you have a lot of practice wristbanding, you will be able to do it very, very fast. Use the time you save with the application of the band to make sure the adhesive is lined up.

Brace the band against the wrist with your middle fingers while you line up the adhesive with your thumbs and index fingers.

And finally, every single person makes the joke that it’s like going to the hospital/to the club. You’re not funny or original for that one. Sorry.

I positively love the effort and analysis this guy's putting in a mundane, lowly task. I'm just fascinated.

There's also that tongue-in-cheek character in both The Flaming Carrot comics and the movie that was inspired by it, Mystery Men : the Shoveler.

His superpowers are that he shovels better than anyone his wife's ever known.

The Japanese call this kodawari, the "obsessive pursuit of perfection", passionate about, striving towards, embracing, insisting on, and paying (close) attention to, the uncompromising and relentless pursuit of perfection.

Another akin word I like is shokunin, "dedication to one's craft", mastery of a profession, obligation to work his/her best for the general welfare of the people.
I can relate on a procedural level (something is think more and more as my own work specialization). You're not doing good for acknowledgement, or even self-gratification in your own skills ; you're doing it the best you can because if everyone is doing the best he/she can, then the overall well-being and purposefulness is guaranteed. A principle that is lost with misguiding, which is why the concept must be decided upon and kept, and why rules are rules.

The Japanese have a lot of lovely, handy, hardly-translatable words.