Leveling up in real life doesn’t come with a sound effect. You just notice old problems feel easy now.

Progress rarely arrives as an event. There is no notification and no moment of becoming better at something, only a later realization that a task which used to take everything now takes an hour. Because the change is gradual, you adapt to each stage as it comes and forget what the previous one cost. That is how people improve steadily and feel stuck the entire time.

Look back at what was hard for you a year ago and compare it honestly with now. Note a few current difficulties so you can run the same check next year. Growth gets verified by memory rather than felt.