| This heavily resonates. I want to add a small tip to your excellent formulation: Identify your "life long practices" and try to find room to work on them in every day, week or month cycle. Life long practices are sometimes discovered and sometimes chosen. Personally, I lift them from the stories I tell myself and then slowly accept them as descriptions of me. This makes it easier to iterate (i.e. fail), you draw strength from having accepted yourself as someone who does this thing and that gives you the patience to not give up as easily. Of course this patience develops over time. For example, programming is something I have been coming back to, with increasing frequency, for multiple years now.. and it's only recently that I am able to do it every day. Regarding getting better vs becoming easier, I think that touches on something orthogonal to patience which is being able to set reasonable goals for each session and putting the original lofty goals (that get refined rather than dismissed) to the back of your mind. This is your skill of evaluation - it develops with experience and is also a great enabler of iteration. tl;dr Patience :: Faith -> Determination -> Courage Evaluation :: Experience -> Understanding -> Trust |