{"id":6424,"date":"2026-07-20T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:06:56","slug":"boring-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/boring-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Boring excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VTJQ_A0Nyws\">Giannis Antetokounpo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Being good at something is boring. The best players, best athletes, never get bored. Every day for 15-20 years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or alternatively, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/extremely-simple-and-incredibly-difficult\/\">extremely simple and incredibly difficult<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounpo: Being good at something is boring. The best players, best athletes, never get bored. Every day for 15-20 years. Or alternatively, &#8220;extremely simple and incredibly difficult&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1FC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}