Growth feels slow because Frameworks are built to be stable. What feels like inertia is the nervous system doing exactly what nervous systems are designed to do.
The Design Choice
A nervous system that updated its Framework at every new experience would be a nervous system that had no working knowledge. Stability is the design. Frameworks are built to hold their shape until they have accumulated enough evidence to justify a change. From inside, that stability feels like resistance. From outside, it is exactly what a learning system is supposed to do.
The Real Timescale
Meaningful Framework change is measured in months and years, not weeks. This is not because the work is inefficient. It is because the encodings are deep, the evidence must accumulate, and the nervous system does not distinguish between the change you want and the destabilization it evolved to resist. The slowness is not a bug. It is the honest shape of the mechanism.
What Makes Slow Feel Bearable
The slowness becomes bearable when the practitioner stops measuring success by dramatic transformation and starts measuring it by the presence of small new evidence. A moment noticed. A response interrupted. A choice made differently. These small markers are how change is actually paced. Trusting them is how a person survives the slow arc without abandoning it.
Growth feels slow because a Framework holding its shape is a Framework doing its job. Change asks it to do a different job, one small piece of evidence at a time.