No one likes to practice dribbling…

If I played professional basketball, I’d rather be known as the guy that can slam dunk versus the guy that can dribble well. Dunking is awesome, dribbling is basic. But, dunking is hard to do if you spend all your time thinking about dribbling.

Here’s a quote by Robert McGee

For talent without craft is like fuel without an engine. It burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

If you have a natural talent for something, whether speaking, creating, designing, writing, or starting, you need to work on the craft of that skill.  Mastering the craft plus your talent will lead to greater impact.  Mastering the craft means mastering the basics, the foundation.  Once you master the craft you can enter into your talent world and roam free without having to worry.  For the writer it means not worrying “Do I put a comma there or there? Is that a run-on sentence?” By mastering the craft of writing, more time and energy can be put into the creative side, producing much greater results. Its not as fun or sexy, but you must do it. This is why pro basketball players work on dribbling.  By mastering dribbling, they set themselves up for a sweet dunk.

What are the basics you need to work on so you can slam dunk?