[notnaut]

To add to this, I think the stress of wanting to be great, or maybe profitable in a certain realm, can stop people from anything like practice on a regular, consistent basis.

They’ll maybe read, watch tutorials, engage in social media, chat about doing a thing, but then never actually do it regularly enough (even poorly or briefly) to see what their improvement trajectory looks like.

They’ll go a week or month between engaging in doing a thing (even if not specifically denoted “practice,”) and only do when bursts of excitement or inspiration hit. And because of the gaps between starting basically from scratch each time, they stay a beginner for years and years with no insight on their actual capabilities. Certainly guilty myself.

[neom]

Yes, to me this is the movie jiro dreams of sushi. Consistently just do some amount every day with no real expectation and you may very well become the best in the world at it, but that wasn't really the goal, it was the byproduct.