Every expert was once terrible at this.

Every chef burned rice. Every writer wrote pages they're glad nobody saw. Every person you admire for doing something well was, at the start, awkward and bad at it.

We forget that because we only ever see the finished painting. We never see the wobbly crayon house pinned up beside it.

If you're a beginner right now — at a new job, a new language, a new way of living — feeling clumsy isn't a sign you're not meant for it. It's the entrance fee. Everybody pays it.

Let yourself be bad at something for a while. That's how the good version of you gets made.