Why you should only ever HAVE to play up to 80 percent of your actual abilities.Hey, you guys. Thanks for listening to another episode of this glorious short daily podcast. Today, this episode is coming out a little bit later than I usually put them out each day because I've spent a couple hours outside today painting our deck. We have this stuff that we're painting with that you have to wait to where it hasn't rained in 48 hours. Also, once you paint, you need to make sure that it doesn't rain for another 24 hours after that. Here in Tennessee, in a summer like this, that is nearly impossible to achieve. Basically, 3 days straight without rain. Of course, we finally hit a time, I think today, where that's going to be possible. It was 95 degrees outside. My wife and I have been outside sweating and painting a deck for a while today. It was not fun. We got about half way done. A few weeks ago, I thought we had to half paint a deck and that wasn't cool.Anyway, all I had to say, this episode is a little later. Today, I want to talk to you what I would like to call, the 80% rule. Before I tell you about that, I want to tell you about my drum teacher in high school, my drumline teacher. Her name was Ms. [Vans 01:34]. Think about, if you could combine the coolest mom ever with the drill sergeant, that's what she was. She's all about a tough love. She cared more about us as a drumline and as individual drummers. She cared more about us being great than she did about us having fun. I think I'm really appreciative for that because years later now, you can have fun a lot of different ways. The greatness that she instilled in us to strive for was something that has affected me to this day. That's something that I keep with me. Like I said, fun normally doesn't last very long and doesn't affect you for the rest of your life. Even just the experience of striving for greatness, whether or not you achieve it, that's something that you carry with you.Anyway, I learned this idea from Ms. Vance. In drumline, we would have these warm ups. Of course, these grueling warm ups we had to play and these really tough ... They weren't really cadences because they weren't meant to entertain other people. They were more of just technical exercises. I guess they still were warm ups. They were technical exercises that we had to play. A lot of these things were really hard to play. They were much harder than the actual music we had to play. It was always funny to me and it came up from time to time that we were playing these warm ups and practicing these things that were so hard. When it came time to play whatever music was in the marching band, Reno and the orchestra, or whatever it was that we were doing at that time, what we actually had to play was so simple and easy compared to what we were having to play these exercises and warm ups.

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