Small Wins, Steady Progress

Getting to Good Enough · Oct 29, 2026 · 18m

Janine has a new idea of fun: learning every country in the world. She can now locate every country in Africa, has Europe down to Russia, is working on South America and the Middle East, and is cheerfully inviting Barry to name a country so she can show off. The excitement is not subtle.

Part of what makes it so satisfying is all those tiny moments of achievement along the way—but Janine also loves the feeling that she’s exercising her memory and expanding what she knows. She reviews countries every day so they don’t fall out of her head, tests herself on blank maps, and invents little tricks…