I am getting better and better every day

Improvement does not arrive in equal daily instalments. It sits flat for six weeks, then jumps overnight for no reason you can identify.

Anyone who has learned an instrument knows the shape. You play the same passage badly through most of October. Then one morning in November your hands do it while you are thinking about dinner.

The flat weeks were not wasted. They were where the work went in. The jump is only the moment it became visible.

Which matters mainly because the flat stretch is exactly where people quit, convinced nothing is happening.