It’s called a learning curve, not a learning wall. It bends if you keep walking.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Hard stretches feel vertical from underneath. Standing at the bottom of one, it looks like a flat face with no way up, and the only evidence that it bends is the fact that other people are already standing above it. The slope is real, it is just longer and gentler than it looks from where you are right now.

When something feels impossible, shorten your horizon. Aim at a week rather than at mastery, and keep a small record of what you could not do a month ago. The proof that it bends is almost always behind you rather than ahead.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Does your learning curve feel more like a solid wall?

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