[gutnor]

I would add to the list - "just do the stuff one damn time".

Everything has been done. There is a better technique and better tool and reference design for everything you will ever think of.

For amateur, this overload of information can prevent you actually doing anything, especially in the physical world where anything you do must respect the laws of physics (varnish needs to dry, cannot just set the boolean to true).

Talking from my experience in hobby jewellery making. Only read about something when you fail to do it or after you have done something. Otherwise you will end up like me, spending my free time watching youtube tutorial after youtube tutorial and not touching my workbench.

[triplesec]

This self-efficacy problem has grown in times of mass media. This is a great point from experience, thank you, and it rings true with me for certain! It's a well-researched sociological understanding, that the "perfect" in our mass media aggregation does often ddispirit the local, craft and beginner in any field ( for example, think music: it used to be really hard to make anything that sounded as good as what you had on a record, because there were not the tools at home). It's only now that I have found friends and a meta-community who are into making things that I feel enabled again, after years (decades!) of feeling alone and with way-too-high a mountain to climb.