I did a few things that may have speeded up the process some. First, I took Lynn's advice and didn't try to use the SR for my full shave until I got the hand of it slowly. But once I was able to complete a full shave, I didn't allow myself to use the DE unless it was absolutely necessary. I simply accepted less than perfect shaves during the process. As I was suffering through the less than perfect shaves, I was thinking about how I was doing a better job with the DE and why that was so. Then, one area at a time, I started to think about how to replicate that success. For a while, I allowed myself to use a DE when traveling. But I haven't even done that in probably a couple years. It takes time.