That itchy kind of stress

Embarrassing as it is, I have been practicing touch typing lately.
That does not mean I am unfamiliar with how to use a PC.
In short, I make a lot of typing mistakes.
I had a vague sense of it myself, but recently I realized again that it is fairly serious.

I know a lot of shortcuts and have built systems to be as efficient as possible, so I think my work speed is above average — and even with many typos, I do not think my typing speed is below average. (No, that is a lie. My typing speed is probably slow.)
The rest of my life, especially my working life, should still be long, so being able to type accurately is better than not.

The reason I make so many mistakes is that my fingers are not placed in the right positions; I have been doing it my own way.
It is silly, but both at the office and at home I have printed a color touch-typing chart, put it on my desk, and practiced while glancing at it.
I am doing that even now as I write this. I estimate it will take about two months before I feel a real improvement in work speed.

Honestly, it is a pain. My hands are a bit large, and because my typing habits were strong, the correct form feels especially cramped.
I feel pathetic that I cannot do something this simple.
On the other hand, effort where the goal is clearly visible can still be taken positively even when it is stressful — and that makes me glad too.

By the way, I do martial arts as a hobby. I have been at it for years and I am still terrible.
The advice my trainer gave me recently was the same kind of basic advice I heard when I first started.
Of course it is obvious, but I was exasperated at how unrefined my technique still is.
Like with touch typing, I kept drilling the basics while feeling that itchy kind of stress.

But being able to feel that kind of stress again — in typing and in martial arts — is something to be happy about.

I already knew there was still room to grow, but when you can improve at the root or the basics, the spillover to everything else is large, and you can expect high-quality growth.
It is irritating, but it is not especially hard, so you can even enjoy the process.

And with martial arts, touch typing, and everything else, I feel again that learning the correct form is the most solid path.

I am almost exasperated at myself for writing something this obvious — but that itchy stress after a long time felt so fresh that I was a little moved and wanted to put it in the blog.
I thought: if I do not actively find improvements that make me feel that itchy stress and work on them, growth will stop right away — and if possible, I want to check whether something is wrong at the foundation.

I want to try new things not only along the axes of how to grow and how I want to grow, but also how I can feel that kind of stress, and what kind of stress I want to feel.