Learn the fundamentals until pressure cannot make them disappear.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Under pressure, the sophisticated parts of your skill disappear first and you fall back to whatever is deepest. If the fundamentals are shaky, there is nothing to fall back to, which is why people perform far below their ability in exactly the moments that matter. Depth in the basics is what makes everything above them usable when it counts.

Spend some of your practice time on basics you consider beneath you. That is what remains available when everything else stops working.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which basics of your work fall apart when you are rushed?

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