Inevitable shortcomings, inescapable self-doubt

Doing something for the first time feels really awkward, because you generally have to grapple with three ideas simultaneously:

1. That you suck at this. (After all this is your first attempt). 2. That because you’re no good, you probably shouldn’t try. 3. That you’re a fraud (because you are)…and that you’ll never get any better than where you are now.

Of course, once you realize that everyone who’s ever attempted something feels this way (and that feeling like an imposter is completely normal), making the decision to keep at it is infinitely easier.

Because then it's just a choice: Do you continue to continue (and simply make space for those feelings)? Or do you give up altogether (forever bound to the contemplation of ‘what if?’)

It turns out choosing the former is the only way anyone has ever learned to embrace the entirely new (which is to say, learn anything ever).