don't half ass it
if you are doing something, just go all in man. there is nothing like " i tried". you either do it or you quit. the only variable that is out there is time. might take you a year when others are able to do it within 6 months. that's not in your control. everyone is different. the intelligence, the knowledge one possess etc, the only thing that is in your hand is the efforts that you put in and the number of iterations it takes to reach where you wanna reach. i am personally a big believer of the fact "fail, but fail faster." you need to try out thousands of things , fail at all of them, find the one in which you actually see yourself failing more than others and then keep on doing it for the rest of your life. that is something that i have learnt over the past few years. there is no glory in being a "perfectionist". you can't spend weeks on perfecting a plan and then executing it and then if the thing fails down the line they starting sweating. start now, make something, you can always make it better, optimize it further.