Brilliance in the Basics // Spartan STAND 003

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The complex, flashy, super sexy solution rarely survives substantial contact with any situation less than the ideal it was created for.

It’s safe to say that ‘The Basics’ are just that, basic. The reasonable extension of this conversation then suggests also timeless. Let’s look at the lever, wedge, wheel… half of humankind’s inventions wouldn’t work without these simple machines. There’s a saying that goes somewhat like: “Why use an expensive whatnot when a hammer will suffice?”

When faced with problems I like to reduce them to their simplest terms. Complex problems require complex solutions and complex things get increasing hard to pull off when we are tired, afraid, cold, wet, it’s dark… And even then, complex things are typically built on the foundation of the basics. So it stands to reason we should be absolutely brilliant at the basics to even set conditions for the fancy to manifest.

At a minimum, the basics can serve as a last resort. If it’s a last resort you should have the greatest of confidence it will work!

I’m assuming of course you are interested in results and not just the appearance of cool.

LESSONS:
Reduce everything to simple terms and then solve for simple.
Uncontrollables have the greatest control over ultimate success of the complex.
Be impressed with how well/precise, a master applies the basics. It’s called elegance.
Spend time tackling the complex so that the basics have greater meaning.

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Producer: Marion Abrams, Madmotion,llc.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, welcome back to Spartan Stand. Today we're going to talk about brilliance in the basics.
0:10.0	On a previous episode, I introduced a concept called Performance on Demand and how that can contribute to
0:15.5	Preparing and living a life of ready state or a readiness mindset
0:20.7	This week with Brilliant's in the, I'm giving you a specific action to be able to develop that performance on demand mindset.
0:29.0	I find that everybody likes the highlight reel. Everybody likes the flashy flashy or the
0:34.1	sexy stuff, the advanced techniques or doing the complex. We're fascinated with
0:39.2	complexity. I think that's flawed. I find that the flashy stuff, the sexy stuff only happens or is
0:48.8	only successful or the degree of success is based on how close it matches ideal conditions, prepared for conditions,
0:57.0	or optimal situations.
1:01.0	We try to design something to fit a specific niche and then it doesn't fit every day or when catastrophe happens or when our faculties are diminished, fatigue sets in, it's wet or it's raining.
1:16.2	If you go back to any advanced technique that are built upon the basics, how well you can execute the basics is what determines on whether or not
1:26.0	you're even going to be capable of executing the advanced technique.
1:30.6	When I was in the Marine Corps infantry community we love to do attacks on objectives and the men always would be hey let's do an
1:39.8	development and we'll maneuver under fire and we'll shift fires and we'll bring in all different
1:44.0	kinds of smoke signals and we'll do all this complex stuff in order to be successful at
1:49.6	reducing this obstacle or this enemy.
1:53.2	And while that sounds attractive,
1:55.8	and it's a great thing, I mean, two questions
1:57.7	have to be asked.
1:58.7	Is it necessary to do all of that?
2:01.6	Or can you even do the basics first that would predicate us to even
2:06.0	do in the advanced thing. So I would then say well at a minimum you have to be
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