I've found that learning new tech is orders of magnitude simpler than whiners on the internet make it seem. I put off learning Rails years ago because post aft

I've found that learning new tech is orders of magnitude simpler than whiners on the internet make it seem. I put off learning Rails years ago because post after post talked about how hard it was to get it right, how the person behind CDBaby totally failed to make Rails work for him, etc., etc. Then I sat down to learn it, imagining it would be a long month, but I learned the basics in 2 days. The exact same thing happened with React. I put it off for so long, thinking it was so hard after reading so many posts. It turns out that it's pretty straightforward. There's still an element of fear before approaching anything new. A voice in my head says "maybe I'm not smart enough anymore to understand this new tech, which looks like it was engineered by aliens." I need to remind myself that I have been able to understand and master everything I have attempted. But the posts out there make it seem learning something new is very hard.