direction
improvement in all directions goes nowhere.
first of all there are the bodily distractions; hunger, fatigue, bladder relief. secondly the preparatory distractions; tending to detail, organising, replacing and grooming. thirdly there is thought itself. the mind is adept at distraction. it has the home ground advantage. lastly, not leastly, there are the substances. and then people are never far away. other people cannot bear to see someone else actually getting something done.
a dog's body; you kick it around and it does the best it can and stays loyal because you feed it what it needs.