The fundamentals of fundamentals.

1. Fundamentals are necessary to achieving lasting success.

This is the rule that so easily gets overlooked. People want a short-cut to success and this is the rule that crushes that desire with an iron hammer... designed specifically for crushing desires. Patience is also a trait that is not commonly found among most people and, in the case of fundamentals, is quite necessary in the development of said success.

2. Fundamentals and their importance are easily forgotten.

This effect is two-fold. Firstly, it is easy to forget why fundamentals have relevance to the success of just about anything. People often achieve slivers of success which feed their ideas that fundamentals are not necessary... until those slivers get stuck under their skin... when the person realizes their insufficiency in the grander scope of lasting success. Secondly, fundamentals are easily forgotten by those who have firmly established his or her mastery of said fundamentals. Perhaps forgotten is not the right sort of word to describe it since it is more that those fundamentals have become an afterthought to the greater, more complex, more impactful, less easily acquired skills.

3. Fundamentals are the building blocks of all greater concepts.

Whether an idea, a game, a system, an environment, a skill, a sport, a way of life, or any other element of life which requires any sort of understanding, fundamentals are the simplest, most foundational elements one needs to understand in order to truly comprehend any of the greater, higher level elements and idea they combine to form.

Anyway, this has all been a practice and a reminder for myself how important fundamentals are and a little about why they are important. I need to really work on my fundamentals in so many areas of life lately... perhaps this will spur a little motivation to do so!