The Learning Plateau: Why Nothing Seems to Work

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Mario Anaya Nunes

Enfrentei muitas dificuldades para aprender inglês depois de adulto, mas consegui superá-las. Foi por isso que decidi criar este blog: para ensinar, compartilhar dicas e motivar você, leitor, a aprender inglês e conquistar seus sonhos. Muitos artigos são escritos por professores e entusiastas que estão aqui, mesmo que o blog leve o meu nome, pois sempre reviso tudo.

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The fire of motivation is small, and it extinguishes very fast.

Most people fall into this trap easily, and it’s not good for their goals.

They abandon what they’re doing after a bit of frustration.

It’s easy to fall for this trap for a simple reason: the plateau.

Here’s how it works.

A guy in his 20s starts going to the gym.

After a month of training three days a week, he doesn’t see results.

He starts looking for new methods, watching YouTube videos of people who already have the body he wants.

He collects more and more information and keeps changing his training and diet.

After a couple of months of frustration, he decides it isn’t worth it and that maybe the gym was a bad idea. Or he simply forgets his goal.

But now he’s aware of the plateau.

The plateau is like a wall you hit after the initial burst of motivation—like a line that rises fast at first and then goes flat, no matter what you do.

That’s normal.

If you’re not aware of this wall, you’ll hit it and quit.

But the only thing you often need to do is keep going without changing anything for a while.

Push through, and you’ll start growing again.

Learning English is the same. You learn a lot at first, then you hit the wall—and many people give up.

Maybe that’s you.

Many do this for years.

So if you feel you’re not growing, don’t change paths or quit. Keep going.

One anecdote I like: water freezes at 0°C—not at 10, not at 5, not at 1, but at zero.

It’s the same with progress: you may be getting closer to the threshold without noticing your development.