Weeks of feeling stuck, then one morning it all makes sense. The stuck weeks were doing the work.

Progress rarely arrives on a schedule you can watch. Most of what a brain does with new material happens out of sight, in the days when nothing seems to move and you suspect you have lost the thread. The sudden clarity is not a separate event from the slog. It is the slog finishing.

On a flat stretch, resist reading it as proof you are not built for this. Keep the sessions short and regular, and mark the date you started so you have something to look back at. The morning it clicks, you will want the receipt.