Gregory's Server@pixx I feel like the difficult thing to hone in on is not necessarily self-belief (although it is critically the first step) but the delivery of self-belief producing results along the way to your chosen destination.
As an example, I used to choose monolithic projects that were outside of my skill set which didn’t necessarily have iterative successes along the way, or alternatively I would not choose projects with a focus on learning rather than result.
Take for example I’ve been wanting to learn more assembler but I know I only really learn things when I have a material goal I want to achieve. I’ve just discovered that I can’t access the RTC on my Z80 retrobrew from MBASIC so I need to rewrite my moon phase clock in Z80 asm.
At the core of that is knowing (as you alluded to) how I learn, and how that is not the same as everyone else learns and critically not the same as most people teach.
@pixx I suppose in that sense the best way to approach learning is often to ask yourself what is the most achievable thing you can do that will make you feel like you’re making progress. It’s a continual game of motivational hacky sack