How to Be the Best at Something

I'm like to use a lot of sports and big fan of sports science and sports psychology. It's like if you want to be the best at something that, you know, don't just settle for doing something halfway or, or, or half heartedly. And these words like interest, every average, their examples of like disappearing syllables,. I think there's a couple of words to describe those type of words, disappearing syllables or whatever or missing syllable. Conference being another one, I'm trying to think of another one there, conference has a couple of chocolate. The infamous one chocolate, yeah, yeah, favorite.