Good morning and welcome to the Increase Rain Pack podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

1,236. One of the things that I absolutely love about my job is to be able to be in the environment

where people who are excellent at their craft get to work on their craft. And one of the interesting questions I get all

the time is, what does it look like? Do they train from morning up to sundown? Do they have

technology that is different? Is it the amount of hours, the effort, the intensity at which

they practice that separates them.

And in many cases, you can say yes, there are some things where it comes down to sheer effort

level and their ability to stick to it and to work on something, work on a problem or a drill

over and over again. Yes, do you have that component. But when you go from

organization to organization or athlete to athletes, you'll end up realizing that they're all doing

the same thing, but it comes down to something else. It's not just the numbers. It's how they

practice. And I came across this article called the mundane,

mundanity of excellence as I was reeling Billy Oppenheimer's newsletter.

Listen to this.

He says this.

In the early 1880s, 1980s, rather,

the sociologist Daniel Chamberlis spent five years studying swimmers at every level

of ability. He visited, learned to swim programs, coached a regional swim team, and he traveled

with the U.S. Olympic team. He was interested in what separated the good from the great, the habits,

the training regimens,

the mindsets, the physical traits, the daily practices, all of these things that contribute

to the reason some swimmers reach the highest levels, while others, despite their similar

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