Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

Competence accumulates in increments too small to register on any given day, which is why people so often quit at the point where the work has just begun to compound. Nothing in the process is dramatic; it is mostly returning to the same task after the novelty has gone. Those who look gifted are usually further along the same slow line.

Stop measuring by the week and start measuring by the year. Keep something dated so you can set your work now beside your work twelve months ago. Then give the current version another twelve months before passing judgement on it.