Richard Machowicz ("Unleash the Warrior Within") defines the Training Pyramid for building speed in any domain: 1. **Correct Fundamentals**: learn the right way first 2. **Concentration**: focus fully on doing it correctly 3. **Consistency**: repeat correctly, every time 4. **Accuracy**: quality of output improves 5. **Speed**: comes naturally, last The critical insight: speed is the *output* of mastering the first four levels, not a goal to chase directly. "You don't start by looking for speed and just start moving frantically when untrained — that's not what elite soldiers are doing, and it's not what elite competitors in their field are doing." The typing analogy: don't type fast while hunting for keys. First learn correct hand positions (fundamentals), concentrate on the right keys, repeat consistently, accuracy improves, and speed follows automatically. The process is irreversible: if you skip fundamentals, you build bad habits that cap your ceiling. The failure mode: training speed before consistency. You get faster at the wrong thing. ## Related - [[Black Hawk Down — This Is My Safety]] — trigger discipline as a fundamental: the veteran trusts the drilled basic ("this is my safety") over any advanced mechanism, the fundamentals-first principle in the field - [[MOC - Self-Mapped Fundamentals Are the Precondition for Permanent Speed Gains]] — this note supplies the 5-stage sequence (fundamentals → concentration → consistency → accuracy → speed) the MOC cites as the framework its own "map your own fundamentals" thesis serves - [[Primitives-First Mastery Pattern]] — a complementary axis: that note is about depth (immerse in root-level primitives until complexity collapses), this note is about temporal sequence (train stages in strict order) — depth and order are two separate dimensions of the same fundamentals-first thesis - [[Demonstrate-Practice-Correct as Universal Teaching Pattern]] — the teacher's-side version of this note's learner's-side sequence: that note is the mechanism a mentor uses to build someone else's fundamentals (demonstrate, guided practice, correction); this note is the stage order the learner passes through once that teaching loop is running --- *Source: [[Pragma]] (Sebastian Marshall, 2017) — Limit Breaks 3 — Actions Per Minute*