Progress in learning is rarely a straight line. Some of the most important growth happens in the plateaus.
There is a moment, teaching a child to read, when nothing seems to move for weeks. The same words are missed, the same sounds confused. And then, without warning, something clicks, and sentences pour out.
Learning is full of these plateaus. Underneath the flat surface, the brain is consolidating — often during sleep, often out of view. The temptation is to push harder. Usually the better move is to keep showing up, gently, and trust the process the science describes.
Patience is not the absence of effort. It is effort that has made peace with time.