It's Normal to Feel Like You Suck at Everything

September 18th, 2026

I am a man of many hobbies, mostly on my computer, but still many hobbies, and if you asked what my skill level at most of them was, I'd say I was OK at best, and I'd consider myself to have relatively high confidence in myself!

To count a few of my historical hobbies: gaming, PC building, enterprise server hardware, programming, game dev, drawing, pixel art, 3D modelling, YouTube, reading, game collecting, Lego, 3D printing (resin & filament), music production, web development/blogging (hello!), fitness, making comics, tinkering with my car, console modding, painting miniature Christmas village houses, robotics, riding quads, hosting live closed-circuit TV segments, voice acting, and many more things I'm sure I'm forgetting.
^^^ A picture of a tiny Christmas village library I painted

Some of these things I'm better at than others, and some of these things I'm outright bad at, like making comics, robotics, etc. There are also some things in there that I regularly struggle with, despite thinking I'm pretty good at those things, or should be pretty good at those things.

There are some things I do for fun that I'm outright bad at as well, just for the love of the game, because I find it fun.
^^^ A picture of a failed 3D print of Withered Freddy's (FNAF 2) head

With the advent of social media, specifically short-form content, and to a lesser extent, long-form content, we've become conditioned to things appearing to happen before us with no effort invested on our end. Think watching an engine swap, megabuilds in Minecraft, house renovations, etc, all happening in the blink of an eye. At no other point in history (other than after TVs were invented and we got stuff like HGTV) have we been able to watch these things happen without making an effort to get off our butts.
^^^ A picture of the head unit I installed in my car (still works!)

I've found myself needing to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. It's not even like this is just a skill you can develop all at once and be set forever, it's a constant effort to not get complacent. For the most part, my novelty-seeking brain keeps this in check, since I get bored if I do the same thing long enough, but it happens every now and then.
^^^ A model I made for a FNAF fangame I was working on, and never finished

Something I learned long ago that's helped with this whole "not caring if you're bad at something" mindset is that I'm generally happiest when I don't give a shit what other people think, and just do my own thing. I've been unc for a long time now. I don't care about being cringe when I'm trying to have fun or doing something new. As long as I'm not being a pain in the butt to someone else, I'm chillin.
^^^ One of the first serious drawings I did on my first drawing tablet, which I cringe looking back on now

When I try something new, say photography (trying this soon, once the camera I ordered comes in from eBay - it's been so long), I have to forgive myself for not being good at it right away. If I care enough, I can learn, watch some YouTube tutorials for free, go practice some more, use the tool itself to try more new things, and soon enough, I'll be pretty okay at it, probably. That's how it's gone with game development, and all the parts that feed into it. I might be a little arrogant to think I can do anything, but like, why the hell not?
^^^ One of my first 3D models I tried making in Blender. It's supposed to be a Leopard 2A4
^^^ Here's me trying to make the same thing ~2 years later

Unrelated: Life hack for doing "embarassing" things in front of strangers (like karaoke, dancing, giving speeches, etc) - most of those people will forget you exist tomorrow, and wouldn't care if you disappeared.

All this being said - try something new that you suck at, and don't give up if you're not immediately good at something. Variety and novelty are one of the spices of life, so go nuts.