 I had a chance to meet Kobe in 2007, and I remember vividly at the end of this workout going up to him and saying, Kobe, I don't get it, man, you're the best player in the world. Why are you doing such basic drills? And I'll never forget it. He gave me a really friendly smile and a wink, but he said in a really serious tone, why do you think I'm the best player in the world? Because I never get bored with the basics. It's the chopping of wood. It's the taking out the water. We call it do the boring work, which is repeating successful actions over and over again. If it worked once, it'll work again. And more times than not, people do something, it works, and they think, oh, I should change it. Yes. When simple scales, fancy fails. Ever since that day, that has been my core philosophy for performance, is never getting bored with the basics and working on mastery of the fundamentals during the unseen hours. I think in business and life, there's just a fatigue of the mundane, of doing the things that actually work, and we move away from them. And sometimes the greatest people in the world just don't allow themselves to suffer from the fatigue of the repetition.