'... that because you proceed toward
mastery through a series of plateaus, so there's like radical improvement up to
a certain plateau and then what looks like a stall, on the plateau, with the
only way to get off one of the plateaus and climb up to the next one up ahead
is with a whole lot of frustrating mindless repetitive practice and patience
and hanging in there.’
The one who speaks
is a teacher from the famous Enfield Tennis Academy and he establishes the
analogy for the tennis training, how one must insist and keep training even
when you think you aren´t progressing. I think the analogy also works for the
language learning and for our topic today:
the change of paradigm in the progress of science and the normal science
concept.
It´s necessary to
cross over all the plateau to get to climb to the next one. In Kuhn´s words:
it´s necessary that normal science advances mechanically until a crisis
appears. Then, there is a change of paradigm followed by another period of
normal science
