By: David Robson | Fail productively… how to turn yourself into a super-learner | Neuroscience | The Guardian
If your aim for 2020 was to learn a new skill, you may be at the point of giving up. Whether you are mastering a new language or a musical instrument, or taking a career-changing course, initial enthusiasm can only take you so far, and any further progress can be disappointingly slow.
From these struggles, you might assume that you simply lack a natural gift – compared to those lucky people who can learn any new skill with apparent ease.
If you are learning a musical instrument, switch between scales and the pieces of music you are practising