The Tinker's Dilemma & Escaping Tutorial Hell
One of the tricky-est and stickiest holes you can fall down as someone who likes to learn, who loves process, is what I like to call the tinker's dilemma. There's a point where the act of tinkering, playing with, or god forbid planning a project or hobby becomes the entire hobby itself.
I saw a YouTube video recently that described that state as "tutorial hell," the point where researching techniques, learning how others approach things, and random minutiae about something replaces doing the actual thing itself.
In a world of infinite information, those of us with brains that love to eat up that info, hell maybe even get a little high off of it, can get lost in a strange sauce that is extremely productive in the direction of something without ever actually touching it.
This isn't to say that learning, tinkering, and perfecting are bad. Tinkering can be fulfilling in many ways. But when it replaces the thing itself to the point that you look back at a graveyard of stuff you set up, wound up, built out to do, but never did...
Maybe the best thing you can do is to just... do.