How to teach yourself to do hard things

I think the unfortunate thing is that a lot of people walk around with this mentality that they need somebody else to teach them, or they need somebody else to give them permission to figure this thing out, or they're not somebody who can teach themselves new things. And that's really only because they've never tried and they've never given themselves that proof. But the sooner you just, like, pick something small and easy, go figure it out, do it, Give yourself that proof. The more and more of that you do, the more confident you become. This, like, the theory of small wins, I think, is really spot on. This idea that you're going to be a lot more motivated if you have a lot of little wins along the way than one big win. I, you know, with Crypto Confidential, I just had a spreadsheet. And every day in the spreadsheet I would write down how many words I wrote. And if I bring up my stats, it says, like, oh, this year, NATS logged 110,000 words. That's cool. Like, that's really motivating. It's like, that's a lot of progress to make in a year. You know, we're almost halfway through the year, and if I keep that up, 200,000 words a year, that's like two books. It's a lot of good writing.