Nothing Succeeds Like Success

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The best kind of practice is challenging, but it still lets you succeed. It’s like an exercise, right?

If you, if you can’t do a pushup, then don’t just keep trying harder and failing to push your body off the ground, getting frustrated, demotivated.

Just, just accept the situation, put your knees down, make it a little easier do some reps of that to build up some strength, and then, and then reattempt a full pushup after a few days of that.

And learning anything should work the same way. You’re learning to solve a new equation?

Well, start out with the simplest case so that you get comfortable with the process and then gradually ramp up the difficulty. Master the full skill at an easier level.

You know, the, the full range of motion, whether it be physical or cognitive. Do the real skill, but on a simpler case, and then build up to more advanced cases, more advanced settings.

Further reading: The Biggest Lever You Can Pull to Make Learning Fun is to Not Overwhelm the Learner .

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