[ajb117]

I get what you're saying, but I think confidence is actually more important than enjoyment.

A lot of people confuse enjoying [x] with enjoying being good at [x]. This is why so many students switch subjects later on in life; when a field suddenly doesn't come naturally to them, they seek to play to their strengths elsewhere. Problems occur when they quit too early, and building confidence early on is important for stopping this.

In my experience, when you think you're bad at something, it's almost impossible to enjoy doing it, which makes preliminary mastery actually the first step to enjoyment and therefore downstream success.

[vouaobrasil]

Nah I disagree with that. Well, I do think confidence is useful BUT it only gets you so far. There are plenty of things I am "confident" in doing but don't really enjoy and after a while I just left them behind because they just don't provide a lot of enjoyment.