Master the basics

Greatness comes from a mastery of the basics.

When the pressure is on, or you’re getting flustered, or you feel like you’re behind where you should be, the temptation can be quite daunting to do something fancy to get yourself out of the hole.

Funnily enough, that’s the opposite approach than what you should probably take.

When you’re starting off, do the basics. When you’re going well, do the basics. When you think you have it figured out, do the basics. When you don’t know what to do, do the basics. When you do have it figured out, you will know that it’s due to the basics.

There is a lifetime of work in the basics. It never gets old, it never gets replaced, and the process always remains the same.

Chop wood, carry water.

That’s all mastery is.

A commitment to the process.

Inspired Lion