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I've heard an interesting thing about mastery and plateaus in the book called Mastery.
Namely, plateaus happen on the road to mastering any skill. The path to mastery is not a straight inclining line. Rather, it's a step-like progressions—mostly flat lines with occasional jumps in proficiency.
Why is it like this btw?
Therefore, if you want to achieve mastery, you need to expect that most of your practice will have little or no visible progress. These times are tough because we're always expecting progress, especially nowadays, when every company promises you instant results.
Also because we see progress initially and also because we tend to avoid effort and pain.
Knowing that, it's useful to change your mindset. Instead of being focused on the outcome, you should focus on the process. Take pleasure from practice, errors, struggle, knowing that sooner or later progress will come.
From this springs: consistency over intensity. (PN: Pick the long-term over the short-term)
You need to be consistent with just the right amount of intensity.
To be consistent, you need to change your mindset from focusing on the results to focusing on the process.
The right amount of intensity means making errors but not to the point where you get frustrated and anxious. (P: Errors are fundamental to learning)
The mindset that helps here is the growth mindset—taking pleasure from errors.
The process is the goal.
Relevant notes (PN: )/questions (Q:):
P: Life happens in cycles: don't quit when plateaus coincide with hardship