Practice doesn’t promise rewards on a strict schedule.
Instead, consistent practice provides a terrain of stasis – a frustrating lack of growth – interspersed with unanticipated growth – seemingly sudden mastery of skills you’ve been struggling with.
To master practice and stay focused during the times of stasis requires deep understanding of this truth. It’s only when we truly understand this that we can accept lack of growth as a crucial and unavoidable part of our growth.
Even in growth, we have periods when we are apparently motionless.