11. Understand the Learning Curve 📈

S curve math illustrates the trajectory of learning a new skill, with a slow start, rapid progress, mastery, and eventual decline.

Understanding this validates the early struggle and prevents discouragement. With consistent practice over time, competence and confidence inc...

When we start something, we expect linear progress, but it's always a gradual unnoticeable small change. 

James Clear calls the chase before the 'Breakthrough' as the "Valley of Disappointment", after which the compounding outcomes are seen. This needs

Most people assume the relationship between effort and reward is one-to-one. We think that working twice as long will produce twice the results. That caring about a relationship twice as much will make everyone feels twice as loved. 

However, most of the world does not exist on a linear cur...