The person who keeps showing up after losing isn’t stubborn. They’re collecting data you can’t see yet.

From outside, repeated failure looks like somebody refusing to read the room. From inside, each attempt returns something small: a timing, a correction, a sense of what not to do again. None of it shows on the scoreboard until enough has piled up. That is why improvement so often looks sudden to everyone except the person who did it.

Keep a record that is not results. Two lines after each attempt about what you learned, somewhere you will actually look again. When you feel like you are going nowhere, read back a month and check whether that is true.