Thread: Retaining motivation

Originally Posted by Silence11

Be wary that the road to any skill could be long; by how much we can't really know. And we must be patient. The will of putting yourself out there and practice, despite how you feel, is important.
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Had I continued then, perhaps today I would've reaped the fruits of three years worth of practice, yet here we are.

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

4) Understand that it takes a LONG time for many people to get to a point of frequent lucid dreams. This is normal, you are not failing. You are building awareness.

These. ^^^

I forgot to touch on this point but definitely keep the above in mind.

People progress at learning skills at very different rates from each other for any number of reasons and it's also a good idea to not measure your own progress by the success or failure of other people's progress.

Of course you should consider what others did well and what they did poorly, but don't use their examples/work/etc. as "gold standards". This definitely applies to all learned skills, the journey to becoming "good" at anything involves going through a lot of trial-and-error even when you know all the theory and have seen all the mistakes other people made.