Getting Started – Hitting a Wall
Alright, so folks kept mentioning this ‘second dancing lion’. Sounded cool, right? But everyone also said getting there was a real piece of work. I figured, how hard could it be? So, I jumped in, thought I’d just figure it out as I went along. My usual approach, you know?
Well, that didn’t work out so great. Man, was it frustrating. I tried the obvious stuff first. Did the things that worked before. Nope. Failed again and again. It felt like I was just banging my head against a wall. I spent hours trying different combinations, different timings. Nothing seemed to stick. I even looked up how others supposedly did it, watched some clips, read some guides. Seemed straightforward enough when they did it, but when I tried to copy them? Total disaster. It was like the instructions were missing a step or something, or maybe I was just dense.
Had to Step Away for a Bit
Honestly, I got pretty burned out trying to crack it. After maybe the tenth failed attempt in one session, I just shut it down. Walked away. Had other things piling up anyway – some urgent stuff came up that needed my full attention, couldn’t really afford to spend hours getting nowhere. So, I put the whole ‘second dancing lion’ thing on the back burner for a while. Didn’t touch it for weeks, maybe even a month. Needed that break to clear my head, I guess.
Back to Basics – The Grind
Then one evening, things had settled down, and I found myself with some free time. Thought I’d give it another shot. But this time, I decided to ditch all the complicated strategies I’d seen online. Forget trying to be fancy. I decided to just focus on the absolute fundamentals. What was the one thing tripping me up every single time? Identified it. It was this one tricky move, this one specific sequence.
So, I just practiced that. Over and over. And over again. Seriously, it was boring. Like, really mind-numbing stuff. Just repeating the same small action until it felt natural. Didn’t even try to get past the whole section, just drilled that one part. My approach was simple:
- Break it down into the smallest possible step.
- Practice just that step, ignore everything else.
- Don’t move on until that step is automatic.
- Be patient. Super patient.
It took way longer than I thought. But slowly, very slowly, I started getting it. The timing clicked. Muscle memory kicked in. I wasn’t thinking anymore, just doing.
Finally Made It
And then, during one of those practice runs, I nailed the tricky part. Almost without thinking, I just kept going. Did the next part, then the next. Suddenly, I realized I was past the point where I always failed. And there it was – the ‘second dancing lion’. Just like that. After all that struggle, the breakthrough felt almost anticlimactic, but man, the relief was huge.
Felt pretty darn good, I gotta say. All that grinding, all that frustration, it actually paid off. It wasn’t some magic trick or hidden secret I found. It was just plain old persistence and simplifying the problem down to its core. Sometimes, I guess, you just gotta ignore the noise, focus on the basics, and put in the work. That’s how I got there, anyway. Took a while, but we made it.
