Most of us assume mastery requires a bold plan — but the smallest daily practice may be doing more of the work than we realize. Most leaders are carrying at least one habit they've started and abandoned more than once, quietly concluding that they simply lack the discipline for it. The truth is usually less about willpower than about scale — expecting a small practice to prove itself before it's had time to. This week's edition traces what actually happens between the first repetition and the moment something becomes permanent. It's a shorter path than most people expect, and a stranger one.