I worked with a guy who told me, you don't need to be that good, you just need the initiative. It was wildly cynical, but when I applied it to successful people

I worked with a guy who told me, you don't need to be that good, you just need the initiative. It was wildly cynical, but when I applied it to successful people I know, who failed quickly and often to iterate, their success didn't come from being meticulous or aligned to some exogenous universal criteria, they acted first then responded and followed up until it was sufficient. There are boobs who think they are better than they are, and I've certainly been one, but you work with the tools you have. Worthwhile people will generally forgive you for failing, they don't forgive not trying because of uncertainty. Becoming somewhat immune and suspicious of discouragement means you will take opportunities others won't, which even if it's just survivor bias, it's the factor most highly correlated to success.