The waxing and waning of enthusiasm for your work is actually somewhat predictable. There are distinct phases of growth that you pass through as you adapt to a new environment or master any skill. These phases can be plotted along the “learning curve,” which is a representation of the difficulty of learning a skill plotted along with the benefits of skill acquisition. For complex adaptation, the learning curve tends to look more like a typical “S curve,” with slow growth at first, then rapid growth as the fundamental mechanics of the skill become easier to perform, followed by a slow leveling
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