You don’t truly know something until you can do it without thinking.
Repetition is the price of mastery.
I like to say, do the reps, and results will follow!
The grind, the muscle memory, the hours spent making the same motions repeatedly—this is how you get a real deep understanding.
Most of us never get past the surface.
Especially in a world full of distractions.
I’m looking at you X, Facebook, Instagram, messaging platforms, email, notifications, etc.
You get the picture.
We chase shortcuts, quick wins, and hacks.
If your IG feed is anything like mine, you see tens, if not hundreds, of hucksters promoting the next best productivity hack- daily.
But deep knowledge is never a hack.
It’s built.
Layer by layer.
In time.
At first, the work feels awkward, slow, even painful.
You have to think about every move.
You second-guess.
You make mistakes.
You start over.
Then something shifts.
The knowledge stops being something you recall and starts being something you just do.
Muscle memory kicks in.
I like to frame it this way: When you are driving down the freeway and see red lights in front of you, you don’t stop to think; you hit the brakes.
If you did stop to think, it would take over 2,000 individual thoughts—too late, and you would crash.
The hesitation disappears.
When you have muscle memory.
The work flows.
The effort is still there, but it’s no longer a struggle.
You’ve crossed the threshold from knowing about something to being it.
When you reach this level, people call you talented.
They assume you were born with it.
They don’t see the weight of the repetitions behind your so-called “gift.”
They don’t see the hours you paid in sweat and frustration.
The paradox of mastery is that before you own the work, the work owns you.
It demands your time, your patience, your ego.
But when you submit to that process, when you relentlessly repeat it, the work becomes second nature.
It’s not magic.
It’s not luck.
It’s earned.
And, it’s you!
Own it!
“Mastery isn’t found in a moment of genius. It’s buried in thousands of unseen reps.” — Mike Brewer