The Truth About Progress - Day 18.

Hello, hello! Today Casey Neistat style with sunglasses but no matter how I see the sun is all over me so I decided it will be just much easier so I don't need to close my eyes all the time for the whole video. And today I will talk about the progress and I'm sure if you are skating or if you do whatever sport you should be at least once in the situation when you feel like you got stuck. You practice, you keep going, you put effort, you are doing your best and you still don't see any result for a while and I think it's something that I experience and all my students also do and I think it's something very normal and I feel like we should talk more about the fact that progress isn't linear so at the end of this video you will know exactly what it means and what things you can do to avoid feeling bad about yourself when you feel stuck. Let's begin from the expectations. Normally if you think about the progress you can imagine that okay I go to practice, I do some progress and then I keep going, I practice more so I make better results but that would be too easy and actually in real life it's not that simple and you probably know it if you achieve like intermediate level or even if you are at the beginning of your journey with any sport you know that there are days when you are super happy and satisfied after the training and there are moments when you feel like oh my gosh why do I even do it like you are so angry and maybe like demotivated and you feel like you went to the practice you did your best and the practice was just bad and you don't feel good about it and I think it's completely fine and the reason why you may feel like this is because the progress isn't linear so it means if you do one push-up today it's not like tomorrow you will do second one and the next day you will do three four five it's not that simple actually you can see it in skating when you learn like intermediate or even advanced tricks you see that when you are making technical tricks for the records it's not like you are adding one more cone with the next training session it's rather like you do three cones then maybe five another few trainings it's like you got stuck with two three and then suddenly you end up with making new record of seven cones and that's completely normal this is how it works I think it's because our brain needs the time and more repetition especially with advanced tricks but also with the easier one it's just the progress is a little bit different so when you are learning basic moves it's more about making it properly with precise moves without kicking the cones putting the correct way our body weight to make it smooth and effortless so at the beginning of course you may feel like you learn new trick and then you need time to master it when it comes to more difficult tricks when you have records you will be counting the cones that you are able to do like your personal best and I think it's a really cool way to actually measure your progress but it's very important and not to focus only on this amount of the cones because actually you may feel like you are not progressing because you got stuck for example at three cones but in real life the situation will be totally different maybe you don't make more cones but maybe the quality is better maybe you use less effort to actually make it maybe you are able to do more repetition or maybe you can do three cones more often so at the beginning it required more time to do it once and now you are able to do it almost every time maybe your body position is better so there are all other things that are tiny elements that are putting into the whole progress and the whole thing of how the trick looks like so I think it's really important first to appreciate these little steps and second not to think about the progress only like making more cones because the quality is something that it's more difficult to measure so if you make a video of yourself trying for the first time and then you are making the video after some time you will notice the progress even if you may not feel it once you're skating then the videos is a great tool to actually help you notice that little difference or sometimes not so little and then you are like oh actually I do feel and I do see that I make some progress and I remember even by myself my most signature trick which is chicken leg it took me so much time actually nobody see it you see just the highlight you see just the result but when I was practicing this trick my training was like one maximum two spins if I'm lucky for for training and then I was doing it for months it looked like I can practice I do one spin fail one spin fail and then it took me like all trainings actually looked like this and then at what one point when I was in the competition in Berlin I was able to do like five cones and then at the same competition I was able to do seven and eleven cones so that was like a magic moment like this magic click but actually I understood that it take times and all the effort and all my failures that I was practicing and I was trying to to do my best during the previous months really made the difference and now I was able to enjoy and get the satisfaction feel fulfilled after this practice so if you are feeling like you are stuck you don't feel like you are making a progress there are many things that actually can be the reason for that maybe you don't practice enough but if you practice enough maybe the way you practice is wrong maybe you just repeat the same mistakes maybe you need new technique maybe you need another approach or maybe you just need more time or even maybe you need more time to relax actually so for me personally sleeping eight hours a day was very very important it was like my priority and I remember always my mom pushed me to go to sleep sooner so even in high school I had to go to the bed at 10 pm and I think it was very very good for my body and I still try to do the same now as an adult and I think it's a very small thing that actually it's hard to notice but it gives the best results because when you sleep your brain has time to process all the things you did during the practice so it really helps you to learn new skills so that's all for today's video let me know what trick took you the most which trick was the headache for you I would really love to hear your stories thanks for watching have a great skating session and see you tomorrow