Nobody posts the boring middle of getting good, but that’s where getting good actually happens.

What gets posted is the before and the after, because the middle is not watchable. Nobody films the eight hundredth repetition or the month where nothing improved, so the public record of every skill skips the only part that produces it. That missing footage is why competence looks like a trait somebody has rather than a thing they did.

Expect the long unremarkable stretch rather than reading it as a sign you chose wrong. Keep a private log of the sessions nobody would want to see. Later it will be the only evidence of how the thing got built.