Some skills only improve in plateaus. Weeks of nothing, then a jump. The weeks of nothing are doing the work.

Progress is often step-shaped rather than sloped. During the flat weeks your brain and body consolidate things you already half learned, and none of that shows in performance until it suddenly does. Mistaking a plateau for a dead end is why people quit three weeks before the jump. The flat part is not a pause in the work, it is a stage of it.

When you hit a flat stretch, keep your practice steady and look at your written record rather than your feelings. Give it a fixed number of weeks before you judge. If no jump comes by then, change the method rather than the goal.