“practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect—take regular breaks; shorter periods of concentrated practice are superior to practising fatigued”.

That had been a general theme of Bruce’s advice; that a man only had so much time and energy stores per day. He had told him that a man had a maximum of four hours’ concentrated effort in him between full periods of sleep.

He had spent twenty minutes on a foreign language app learning Dutch before switching to a selected ten ‘high-frequency’ words. Connor had been taught that the fastest way to fluency was to master two thousand of the most commonly used words within the foreign dialect. These two thousand words would contribute to eighty per cent of the writing and