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Anxiety tbh the idea of starting something has always been been hard but add to on top that it's learning so it's even harder to begin.

I have ideas and I know the very basics of coding. What is daunting for me is that I don't know how to take what I know about coding and turn that into an executable program. It's like I've only been dipping my toes in a fish pond, but now I have to swim the English Channel. It just feels like I need a big leap in knowledge.

I’m incompetent, naive, complacent, and I procrastinate actually putting in effort for progression and learning. If it’s not taught in a classroom or closely, I struggle to allocate the interest into fully learning it or even partially learning it. Just grazing the surface of comprehending a subject, and any subject, just enough to explain basic concepts about it becomes “enough” for me. Afterwards, I lose interest and diverge into a new subject. I am incompetent.

I'm scared to start because I'm embarrassed about not knowing everything. I'm embarassed about needing to plan and draft before providing a final product. So many people in my life have made things seem worthless because they dont understand how i could profit from it, or because I didn't have anything to show for it at the moment, or because the path seemed too dificult to them so it must be too difficult for me.... It's stopped me from learning and growing...a lot. I don't know why, but it feels like there's this omnipresent toxic culture that's built up against people that don't know everything, but it scares me and makes me feel awful. I know that's stupid. Everyone starts somewhere. I just don't know how to develop the mental fortitude to ignore the pressure of people holding me back because I don't know as much as them, or because I'm not an expert in the field yet. I have a decent grasp of where to go next, I just need to commit to getting something done.