Ballin

This post is for the last two weeks, because I got sick last week and had to take a break from practice (and from writing). It feels like I'm making progress, but it's slow. In recent practices, I shot, from the top of the key, 9/30, 12/30, and 6/30. So no progress there, which is a bit frustrating and discouraging. This brings up one of the big challenges of skill building: resilience . Although progress is slow (or even non-existent), I can't let my frustration about that negatively impact my practice. I bet some of you reading this have had similar experiences with learning something in college. I haven't lost faith in my practice methods for three reasons: I was still a bit sick when I shot 6/30. Being sick could have negatively impacted my shooting and cost me several baskets. There's an element of randomness in how well I shoot on any given day. So I need to look at longer trends in my shooting numbers before concluding that I'm not making progress. I feel...