Steph Curry's new book argues that elite performance comes from mastering fundamentals through repetitive, boring work: skill drills, strength, nutrition, recovery. Curry himself does basic drills daily despite his reputation for spectacular shooting. The speaker says shortcuts and adrenaline don't work. Efficiency and growth require relentless refinement of the basics.
Athletes, this is Steph Curry's new book. Every single athlete needs to listen to this. Grounding means returning to the fundamentals of the game, which is important whatever your game is. If you don't master and remaster the basics, you will always be wasting time compensating for fundamental flaws. That doesn't mean you can't succeed. Maybe you'll get by. Maybe instead of preparing, you'll wing it and let adrenaline push you through. Maybe instead of learning to delegate, you take on every burden yourself and muddle through. Even if those things work for a little while, the inefficiency of working harder for the same result will keep you you from growing to the next level. Everyone who watches Steph plays probably assumes that he's only practicing the super fancy, incredible, off-the-dribble, super deep 3-pointers, when in reality Steph is coming back every single day to the fundamentals of the game and mastering them again and again and again. If Steph is doing that, I would assume you need to be doing that too. This is with nutrition, this is with recovery. This is with your skill work. This is with strength. The results will come and do come from doing the most boring things over and over and over and over again. And this isn't Kelsey saying this. This is from the best shooter on earth. Every single athlete that I coach should be reading this book.
