Consider Helen Keller’s apprenticeship with Anne Sullivan: daily finger-spelled drills led to the famed “water” breakthrough in 1887, yet the triumph was only a beginning. Through years of consistent practice, Keller learned language, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904, and became a writer and advocate. None of this arrived by epiphany alone; it flowed from chores of attention performed every day. Building on this example, we can look to research that explains why small, steady tasks have such outsized effects. [...]
