Progress, habituation and the development of skills

We live in an age, where we became obsessed with speed. Instant coffee, fast food, fast cars and fast computers.
These machines changed quickly over the last centory, but our brain did not.
Our brain still learns the same way it did centuries ago.
Progress is usually too slow for us to notice any kind of improvement. We need loud, sensational actions and leaps to be able to recognize and feel any kind of growth or advancement.

The ability to get used to the "new us" with our new abilities blinds us to the major progressions that we make over time.
It is usually a friend or a family member whom we hasn't seen in a long tone who usually mentions our progress to us.
The plateau effect is a feeling that could be caused by the frustration linked to the very slow pace of progress, or by the misalignment between our skill level and the diffuculty of the tasks we take on.
Boredom is the other enemy of growth, our brains are like little kids, once a toy loses its novelty it gets pushed to the side and completely discarded.
When we try new ways of performing a task and persist until an activity becomes unconscious and running on autopilot, we achieve the two following things : we give our brain the challenges and we also provide it with the variety it thrives on.
We the task becomes too easy, our brain zones out, it is then the time to turn the dial on the dificulty level to jolt our brain back to life.