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It's difficult to improve the body b/c it's intrinsically lazy. The message of "not good enough" has to be very strong to override its survival-based lazy instincts. The equivalent of something so difficult at work that it makes you want to go back to school.

Once frustration reaches a certain level I just stop b/c it becomes soul-sapping but up until that point that frustration is actually the "not good enough" signal. Everything up until the frustrating starts is in a way, wasted effort.

The ability to continue to do something past frustration is a measure of discipline and correlates to speed of learning. It's the ability to send strong clear signals to the body without backtalk. Like walking the dog instead of being walked by the dog.

One of the more difficult things for me is endurance related. I hate running. I hate sweating, and I hate the feeling of not being able to catch your breath. My frustration tolerance is very low. Even when I do push myself it feels like "proving myself".

The equivalent of dragging a dog by force and wondering why the dog walks are still such a problem.

Something else like piano though is easier because I can always fall back to something fun. I can tell my fingers to push a bit more on whatever technical movement I'm working on because I'm able to "reward" them with something they care about.

That is, the "work" is possible because there's a bridge to "play".

I suspect with endurance, the "play" aspect for many people is some sort of social thing like running/biking together in a marathon or a team sport like basketball/soccer. Experiences that I never really had.