Dont Let Them Get Discouraged

Published: March 10, 2020, 1 p.m.

We\u2019ve all done it. It\u2019s happened to almost all of us. We see a thing. We want to try it. It\u2019s hard. And\u2026we give up. Whether it\u2019s karate, business, piano, reading, learning another language...every new skill has a \u201cpain period\u201d and, most of the time, we never get over it.Because we lack encouragement or any visible progress, we quit. In a way, this is a kind of costly cognitive error. In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about something he calls \u201cThe Plateau of Latent Potential...