Readiness is built when urgency is absent.

Readiness cannot be manufactured under urgency, because urgency consumes the very attention that learning requires. The quiet stretch when nothing is demanded of you is the only workshop you get. It rarely feels productive at the time, which is why it gets spent elsewhere.

Treat your uneventful weeks as the actual work rather than the gap between work. Ask what your future self, in some pressured moment, would wish you had practiced today, and give that an hour. The absence of pressure is not a sign that there is nothing to do; it is the condition that lets you do it well.