I’ve already experienced a hellish amount of stress before that I never once knew existed, but every time I go through these moments of extreme discomfort, eventually, there comes a time where I finally cross a certain threshold, and that way of living is no longer stressful, and becomes my new calm even.
Of course, I can’t say that this applies to one’s psychology, for mental madness isn’t something you can get ever get used to, and instead should be purified - which I thankfully have and will never be touched by malevolence again.
However, when it comes to more real-world things, I’ve always found that whenever I try to succeed in something, eventually, there is always a point where
I no longer have to TRY to do something, and the things that I once couldn’t even imagine, let alone felt to be an impossibility, were suddenly the new things that would be able to try to do.
I would say mastery of a subject is when you don’t have to think anymore when you want to accomplish something, just like you would if you were able to speed run a game that has mechanics with an incredibly high learning curve.
The difference between the you who first tries to play the game without any prior experience for the mechanics, compared to the version of you who is speed running, may as well literally be worlds apart.