When you’re practicing a skill, eventually the basics start to feel rote.

You’ve used the skills from your first lesson over and over, so it feels boring practicing them.

For this reason, they’re among the most important skills you’re free to practice.

Each player reviewed how to block and tackle.

They opened up the playbook and started from page one.

You’re going too fast for us."

Lombardi reportedly cracked a smile, but continued his obsession with the basics all the same.

His team would become the best in the league at the tasks everyone else took for granted.

Think back to the things that you learned in your first lessons, or first days on a job.

These are the things that were deemed important enough to start with.

A better understanding of these concepts will help you improve.

Adding new skills is fine, too.

But these are the ones you’ll need every day.

The Hidden Power of Mastering the Fundamentals| Entrepreneur

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