Learning Occurs in Spurts

A spurts is a sudden change, a sudden improvement. Methodical has the same kind of idea. It means that you're doing the same exact thing each and every day. So your English seems to be improving, improving, improving. Suddenly, you hit a plateau. Now, it feels like it's the same. And so you can imagine this for graphs, and learning, and mathematics. There's a rise in your ability,. Then you get to a plateau, it means it gets flat. Not going up, not going down.