Fundamentals are Everything
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee
Whether we realize it or not, we all rely on fundamentals daily. Fundamentals are the basic building blocks of any activity, subject, or skill.
To be successful, it is essential to have a strong foundation in the fundamentals.
For example, in basketball, the fundamentals include shooting, dribbling, and passing.
A player who has mastered these basic skills will be more successful than one who has not.
The same is true in other areas of life. To be a good writer, for instance, one must master the fundamentals of grammar and composition.
Anyone who wants to be successful in any area must first take the time to learn and master the fundamentals. Otherwise, they will likely struggle to keep up with those who have done so.
Though it may seem tedious or even boring, there is no substitute for a solid foundation in the fundamentals. They truly are the key to success in any endeavor.
Everyone wants advanced knowledge, but few want to grind out the learning of the fundamentals.
But when things go awry, the basics always bail us out.
Blog picks 🎯
Eastern vs Western Views of Happiness
3 mins | By Iván Tejero
The Western intellectual tradition suggests that in order to be happy, what we need to do most of all is to go out and subdue the world; secure resources, found businesses, run governments, gain fame and conquer nations.
Influencer culture is everywhere — even in academia
5 mins | By Brooke Erin Duffy
The number of prefixes one can affix to "-fluencer" knows no bounds. Among the "side hustle" hyphenates making headlines in recent weeks: pharma-influencers, ag-influencers, doctor-TikTokers, and fin-fluencers (a portmanteau of financial advisor and influencer).
7 mins | By Wesley Aptekar-Cassels
I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms. It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
App/Site of the week 🗓
Skratch - Unlock the world — www.skratch.world Skratch lets you plan, track and share your travel life with personalized maps. Track your visited countries and states. Create a bucket list. See real time travel restrictions. Pin your travel memories.
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