$ you can just do things
been thinking about that thread going around (and which is reposted by me ever so often). "you can just do things!!!". it sounds simple but i think misses the point entirely.
it's not about you knowing you can do something. it's about giving yourself permission to suck first.
i feel like the the permission thing is deeper than we think. somewhere along the way, we learned (or were told!) that starting means you should already be good. that trying means you should already know. that doing means you should already have done it earlier.
the people who seem to "just do things" aren't always fearless. they're just comfortable being beginners. they give themselves permission to suck initially
it's practice. you learn it by doing badly, then doing slightly less bad, then eventually doing okay.
the internet (even tech companies!) are full of first attempts that became careers. first lines of code that became companies
maybe the real barrier isn't not knowing you can do things. maybe it's not knowing you can do them badly at first
giv(e/ing) yourself/myself permission to be a beginner