Everybody’s life has a boring middle. Yours isn’t uniquely slow.

Most of any life is the unremarkable part, and the unremarkable part is edited out of everything you see. People post the arrivals, never the two years of practice, so the average life looks like it is all events. Yours has the same proportion of nothing as everybody else’s.

Stop reading the slowness as a sign that something has gone wrong. Pick one thing to get measurably better at during it, and check in three months. Boring middles are where the capability gets built.