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Paul Skenes - Greatness is boring.mp4

30 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube clip (Fortitude 365) featuring a multi-speaker conversation about the value of routine, repetition, and mundane fundamentals in sports preparation. Speakers emphasize patient, consistent warm-ups and boring daily routines as foundations for high performance.

Sometimes it's what it takes, you know, in sports, the boring process, the boring fundamentals.
He has this sense of calm because of the fact that he is prepared.
Working my tail off through this warm up. I'm like, what are we doing? This warm up.
Is two hours.
It definitely takes patience. I go out to play catch. I feel amazing. And you do that over the course of a year. There's nobody that's going to stop us now. That's the one thing that, you know, flipped the switch for me. And I'm like, I'm going to listen to whatever this guy says for the rest of my career.
I've seen Some starters take 25 minutes to get ready to throw. I've never seen anything like that. It's the same thing every day. It's very mundane. It's very boring.
Boring is such a beautiful thing because that routine.
Works sometimes. It's what it takes, you know, in sports, the boring process, the boring fundamentals.
He has this sense of calm because of the fact that he is prepared. His routine is boring because it's the same every day. But I'll 100% take boring all day long.
Everything takes patience. There's no instant gratification and a lot of the time it's boring. But greatness is boring.