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Plateaus: Practice Without Progress
By Maya Rathore — 2019
“It was a downward spiral for about three years. I just reached a natural point where I felt that I wasn’t going to see immediate results anymore and that was hard for me to accept. I did the same thing every single day for so long that I could just tell I was not improving.” -- Junior Alana Abeyta
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