Learning feels like nothing, nothing, nothing, and then one day you just get it.

Progress is not spread evenly over the time you put in. A lot of the work goes into groundwork that produces no visible result, and then the pieces connect all at once and it feels like the ability arrived out of nowhere. It did not. The flat weeks were doing the building, which is why quitting during them is such a common and expensive mistake.

When you are in the nothing stretch, track the hours instead of the results. Ten sessions logged is a fact you can hold on to when the feeling of improvement has not turned up yet.