In case you're rusty on who Curry is: one minute of him leading the US to 2024 Olympic Good Medal with four 3's to close out the finals game

1. Get the fundamentals really really consistently right. At 15, when he changed his shooting form, he spent roughly three months taking shots only from inside the paint. I’ve never heard of anyone doing anything close to this - 100 days in a row only shooting from a few feet from the basket for hours each day.

2. Details matter. Curry emphasizes getting the tiny details right. For example, when his shot hit an off spell, he realized he was putting slightly too much weight on his pinky toe which subtly affected his whole shooting motion.

(Reminiscent of 10 time coaching legend John Wooden: “I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny details that might be commonly overlooked. They may seem trivial, perhaps even laughable to those who don’t understand, but they aren’t. They are fundamental to your progress in basketball, business, and life. They are the difference between champions and near champions. The first thing I would show our players at our first meeting was how to take a little extra time putting on their shoes and socks properly…you must not permit your socks to have wrinkles around the little toe, or around the heels. Then hold the sock up while you put the shoe on. You tighten it up snugly by each eyelet. Then you tie it. And then you double-tie it so it won’t come undone”)

3. Daily Discipline. Curry says a key to his success has been “getting started before everyone else’s day begins”. And on how locked in you have to be all season to win a championship: “you cannot afford to let go of a regular-season game in December.”Excellence is not something you turn on only when the stakes feel obvious - Curry is great year after year because he’s committed day after day, game after game.

4. Confidence can be built. Curry remembers being too afraid to try out for varsity as a sophomore in high school, and promising himself he would not betray himself like that again. He still gets butterflies before games (“every game - preseason, regular season, Game 7”), but works through it.

5. Have fun!  “Joy has stayed with me as the guiding light and motivation; but only because I’ve safeguarded it”, Curry writes as he ends the book. When you watch Curry you see him having more fun than almost anyone else. Curry emphasized multiple times in the book that this doesn’t just happen, but prioritizing it has been a key driver to his success.