When learning a new skill, you typically have to do lots of boring stuff before you can do the fun stuff. We all know this — we’re told this all our lives, starting when we’re small children.
Practice your scales on the piano before you try to play real songs. Practice your tennis forehand swing; make sure you’re holding the racquet correctly; adjust your grip. Practice your multiplication tables. (Do kids still do those?)
Run wind sprints, lift weights and hit the practice dummies before you start planning your NFL career.
Drills. Stretches. Kata. Verb conjugations. Show me a favorite sport, musical instrument, martial art, or academic discipline and I’ll show you a potentially “tedious” preparation for it.