[worldsayshi]

Making "shitty robots" seem to me as the perfect stepping stone towards building actually good robots. I don't see that there can be any better way to learn really (It makes you deliver something that also makes you learn something). Except maybe doing that while also studying all the theory that you may possibly make use of when building robots.

[DagAgren]

But as she says, she wasn't doing that. She was making funny videos about crap robots so she wouldn't have to face the fear of trying to build something good, and failing.

That isn't learning, it's the exact opposite. And that is why she stopped.

[Wowfunhappy]

I think there's more nuance to it than that. I could not build any of her "shitty" robots. They were almost certainly a learning experience. That she also managed to entertain and even inspire others through that learning experience is a great accomplishment.

She shouldn't be so hard on herself. If calling the projects "shitty" gave her permission to fail, well, failing is also a part of learning.

Now she's ready to progress to "useful" robots—or other projects altogether. That makes sense.