Put in the 'REPS'

 

NO sirrrrrrs, please DON'T get me wrong.  I am NOT a too-late-the-hero gym buff convert [just because of this thread].  for alignment, 'REPS' is a slang derived from 'REPETITION'.  Having said that, you might wonder, WHY on earth are we wasting our thread today about PUTTING IN THE REPS?  YES, I got to confess, I've witnessed many times folks jumping from the frying pan straight into the fire even they haven't PUT IN THE REPS📗📙📘

Heard of a fresh university graduate so eager-beaver to plunge into the job market on the basis that he/she graduated with academic honors?  NOT to belittle our graduates garnering their honors because surely they deserve that kind of academic recognition.  BUT the job market is a totally new ballgame.  That explains WHY we'll here entry-levels via TRAINEE or ON-THE-JOB as it gives a raw talent a crash course to at least 'weaponize' him before he gets bruised❎❎❎

Thing here is that there is a widening gap and disconnect.  Many [wrongly] think that if they sort of 'burn the midnight oil', voila, come next morning, they are READY enough.  BUT the hard lesson I myself learned here is that time is NOT enough.  Sometimes, people ask me for career advice and usually, NOT their fault, many are curious enough wanting to know about skills to learn, books to read, WHERE to find inspirations, stuff like that.  BUT my recurring advice is NOT about WHAT to learn.  It's more on HOW TO LEARN instead💧💧💧

Frankly, my sage advice is to find ways to get in LOTS OF REPS, especially early in your career life.  Look around for organizations WHERE REPETITION and iterative design are part of and embedded enough in that organization's culture.  And IF you CAN'T find that culture, do WHATEVER you can to create it by yourself, for yourself.  In short, to GET IN REPS is that idea of a structured learning approach through REPETITION.  Think of a musician, a violinist doing scales, OR an NBA hoopster practicing hundreds of shots.  I even heard this narrative from the Miami Heat NBA ball club where the Fil-Am Coach Erik Spoelstra dropped by the practice court and saw one shooter really DOING THE REPS💥💥💥

And before you expect things wrongly, you thought Coach Spoelstra will pat the player on his back?  NO sirrrrrs.  Instead, he challenged the player to get the ball into the cup a 100 times before he packs up for home, whew,  3 years down the road, that player, BTW that's Duncan Robinson, was offered a $90 Million contract, the biggest offer ever to an undrafted NBA player.  That's how far the Michigan player ended up with that huge NBA contract.  Again, it's all about PUTTING IN THE REPS😁😁😁