Streaks

I've not got a competitive bone in my body so I'm not particularly motivated by streaks. It's just data: I've done a thing this many times. Streaks happen or they don't. They are a side effect of the thing. This is prompted because I've recently broken a French streak I held for over five years. It was a complete accident. Nothing in particular happened. Just, one day, I forgot to do a thing I'd done every day for five years. Those five years contained some of the worst days of my life - and I still did my French practice those days. Broken by an uneventful, completely average Wednesday. Whoops I guess. I didn't track my French to count the streak itself. I tracked it because it was useful data for me to know - to make sure I was getting a good balance of watching, listening, reading, and so on. A side effect was that I could see an unbroken line of dates. I never set out with the intention, five years ago, to do French every day for five years, to build a streak. It just happened.…