it's okay to suck at something
for a brief period i taught web development to young students — not formally, just someone who’d figured out enough to point others in a direction. one of them asked me once: sir, i love programming, but i suck at it. what should i do? when i first wrote html, i used notepad. saved the file, tried to open it in a browser, it opened in notepad again. tried again. same thing. i couldn’t figure out what was happening. eventually i gave up for a few weeks until a different tutorial mentioned, almost as an aside, that you have to save it as .html and not .txt. that was it. that was the whole problem. ...