Life is about getting to, or close enough to, 100% most of the time.
Overcoming those setbacks that come along the road of life every day — the cold toast in the morning, the headwind to work on the bike and that annoying person in accounts who laughs at their own jokes.
It is about shrugging off the things that do not go right or the way they should and just getting on with life.
Getting through a whole lot of one percenters every day to get what one desires at the end of the day.
Sport mirrors life and in the All Blacks we have a team that knows exactly how to tick off all the little things to get to the end product.
To do all the simple things efficiently and with a minimum of fuss, which, in the end, makes a success of what they are trying to do.
Sure, there are plenty of wonder plays and slices of brilliance.
But just watch them play closely and it is the simple things that lead to the points.
The so-called methodical things they do — by and large — are never done wrong.
The way the ball always comes back from the ruck, the way the ball is contested in the air every time, the lines that are run by all the players.
One just has to look back at the first two tries the All Black side scored in Christchurch on Saturday night into what was a blustery wind.
That was a clear display of the little things combining to get the points.
The first try came from the ball being run hard at the line and then quick ball moved to the other side when Dane Coles flicked a nice ball to Israel Dagg to score.
Just a simple move but everyone did their job.
But the reason they could do the move was Elton Jantjies, the Springbok first five-eighth, dropped the kick-off cold.
The All Blacks at the moment just do not do those one percent things wrong — like catching a kick-off.
The second try of the first half was also simple as they come.
Hit the ball up the middle, then move it quickly down the other side.It relied on some explosive pace from hooker Coles but the passes were quick and crisp and everyone knew what they were doing.
The side just does the so-called easy things right all of the time.
And that goes a long way towards why the side is far ahead of the chasing pack.
Backing up those smooth and precise plays is the seemingly unstoppable desire to keep up the pressure and rack up the points.
The Springbok side did not play badly but it was just not allowed into the game.
Every ball it took was behind the advantage line, every ruck it hit it failed to get on the front foot and although it was useful in the air, its aerial game did not put enough pressure on the All Blacks.
It tried hard but just did not have the constant ability to play an accurate game to put the pressure on the home side.
The All Blacks are simply well out in front in world rugby at the moment and daylight is second.
Whether the others can catch up is a wait and see but nothing suggests it is going to happen any day soon.