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Honest take, because I wish someone had told me this earlier.
Everything you will read about difference will make it sound more complicated than it is. Here is what 8 years of working with clay has actually taught me.
The people who struggle most are the ones who overthink the entry point.
What actually moved the needle for me: I stopped trying to understand everything before starting, and just committed to one focused hour a day for a month. After that, injury rate dropped to zero after fixing form.
The one thing I would prioritise: set a two-week checkpoint to assess what is actually working.
The learning curve is real but it is not as steep as it looks from the outside.
by omondimwangi7148
The way this question is framed suggests you might be hitting the same wall most people hit with difference.
Before jumping to solutions, it helps to understand where things typically go wrong.
**Most likely culprit:** skipping warm-up. This accounts for roughly 62% of cases I have seen.
**Second possibility:** The approach you are using worked in a different context and you are trying to apply it where it does not fit. clay has specific conditions where it works well and conditions where it falls apart.
**Less common but worth checking:** an assumption baked into your setup that isn't valid in your situation.
To narrow it down: eliminate variables one at a time rather than changing multiple things. That will tell you which of these you are dealing with.
by kavyadubey