I’ve done this journey twice and am in the process of doing it a third time. Each with different 2-card systems that required learning 1352, 2704, and 2704 associations, most of them different each time and each system using a different reading structure or different phonetic assignments.
The first time I ever got there felt like winning the super bowl.
The second time, starting basically from scratch again, was a good feeling, but like “ok, I can still do this.” But I knew I wanted to make a better system structurally so I wasn’t as excited as before.
I spent quite a few months bouncing between ideas before settling on what I believe is my final system build and starting a third attempt at training from scratch down to under a minute…
I must say, this third time has been like pulling teeth to stay motivated. It is a lot of work and its weird because I’ve definitely trained to the point where my recognition is easily fast enough, but I’ve just kinda hit a motivation wall to get past the final hurdle of just pushing attempts faster and faster. I’ve also deliberately NOT forced myself to train every day, there have been several things that have been a higher priority to spend my time on and thats ok. I still WANT go get this system under a minute but it holds less pull since I’ve already hit that mark with other ones. My main motivation is to maybe prove the superiority of this system design over my previous ones, but that hasn’t been enough to keep me as locked in as the first time. I think from the start I was really more into the tinkering and theorizing stages of system building than I was in the application of them. But I wanted to prove that they would work, so I drilled them and got there, but now with all of that experience to draw on, I KNOW that this current one will work the best, so I don’t really feel the push to PROVE it. If that makes sense.
All that to say…
If you’re not enjoying it, take a break! Or be ok with it taking longer to get there with a more sporadic approach to training. There are lots of things that compete for your time, its ok to adjust priorities.