I've seen a nice paper on this subject discussed on HN once: 'The Mundanity of Excellence' [1]. It's about how olympic-level swimmers end up at the olympic leve

I've seen a nice paper on this subject discussed on HN once: 'The Mundanity of Excellence' [1]. It's about how olympic-level swimmers end up at the olympic level. The point is exactly the one you're making: they do so by consistently doing the most boring things. [1]: https://academics.hamilton.edu/documents/themundanityofexcellence.pdf https://academics.hamilton.edu/documents/themundanityofexcel...