That “oh, that’s it?” moment when it finally clicks pays back every confused hour before it.

The click is not the moment you learned it; it is the moment the work you had already done became visible. All those confused hours were building the structure the insight needed in order to land, which is why it feels sudden and simple when it finally arrives. Nothing shorter would have produced it, even if afterwards it looks like it should have.

While you are in the confused stretch, remember that it never feels like progress from inside, and keep going anyway. Keep a note of the thing you do not get. Crossing one off is the best half hour of the week.