It’s not playing the piano.

It’s not learning your DAW front to back.

It’s not scratching, it’s not shredding on a guitar.

It’s patience.

We’re all in a rush to achieve something. To reach a metric, or meet a deadline. These are good for getting our butt off the couch instead of your seventh Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough (unless you’re a pro gamer).

But a lot of these goals are artificial. We make them up in our heads and then pressure ourselves into reaching them.

Some days we make progress, some days we don’t. And we beat ourselves up over them.

Even if they don’t really move the needle.

We just want to feel like we’re doing something. Anything.

And that’s a problem, because when you’re doing something for the sake of doing something, you might not actually be doing work. You’re just doing busywork.

Instead of compulsively doing things that don’t get you closer to what you want to achieve and who you want to be, learn to be comfortable when things don’t move forward.

Be OK with things slowing to a crawl.

Progress is rarely, if ever, linear. Learn to wait.

Patience is underrated.